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"But then it came to me that who I really am is a person who doesn't need to know who he really is, in the usual sense. What does it mean, anyway - family background and so forth? People use it mostly as an excuse for their own snobbery, or else their failings. I'm free of the temptation, that's all. I'm free of the strings. Nothing ties me down."
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"You are not in the kingdom by accident."
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"Let's be private... I am different character and DeYtH is different as character."
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"I was starting to see that what looks like garbage from one angle might be art from another. Maybe it did take a crisis to get to know yourself, maybe you needed to get whacked hard by life before you understood what you wanted out of it."
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"You are the only one of your kind."
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"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
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"We have worth because we were created in the image and likeness of God."
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"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."
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"You must wear clothes which suits your own soul, not your own society! What you wish to do is much more important than what your society wants you to do!"
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"Names have power."
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"You are the architect of your future, you decide whether you build a hut or a palace."
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"All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard."
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"Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I'm in better shape than they are."
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"I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memorial. But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge."
Memory

"War is what happens when language fails."
War

"In my dreams of this city I am always lost."
Emotion

"The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but 'Am I really that boring?'"
Beginning

"We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly."
Leadership

"Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time."
Time

"Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon..."
Nature

"I was taking something away from her, although she didn't know it. I was filching. Never mind that it was something she apparently didn't want or had no use for, had rejected even; still, it was hers, and if I took it away, this mysterious "it" I couldn't quite define."
Emotion
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