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"The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."
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"She has a serene, glowing disposition. She looks at you and the rest of the world through the eyes of a lynx and is always mysterious, possibly because she always harbours those hidden laughs just beneath her lips. She's always ready to laugh."
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"I can eat you at breakfast, not because I am a monster; it is only because you are too cute and yummy."
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"Humanism is not a single character. It is a magnificent blend of various emotional and behavioral traits that are unique to the human mind."
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"Being bigheaded can be as irritating and as dangerous as being small-minded."
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"A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles."
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"I cannot do anything fake; that is why even when I sleep with a prostitute, she falls in love with me."
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"Since we are all unique and individual, being cognizant of different personality styles will help you better recognize where others are coming from to minimize barriers, build trust, and catapult your newfound communication skills into meaningful connections. The savvy socializer knows this all."
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"Character of any person is the aggregate of his or her conscientious tendencies - the sum total of the knacks of the civilized part of the mind."
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"Confidence, is like a belt worn around the waist. Wear it too tight, you come off cocky and arrogant, wear it too loose, you come off timid and a walk over, but wear it fit and snug, it will uphold you in every step of the way."
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"We might respect a serious person with an austere and rigid personality, but we adore merry, kindhearted, and artistic people."
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"One can easily classify all works of fiction either as descendants of the Iliad or of the Odyssey."
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"We have gotten away from this double aspect of either putting the character back into historical events or of making a historical event of his very life."
Life

"When Ulysses hears his own story sung by an epic poet and then he reveals his identity and the poet wants to continue singing, Ulysses isn't interested any longer. That's very astonishing."
Identity

"The Iliad is the private lives of people thrown into disorder by history."
History

"The Odyssey is the story of someone who, in the course of diverse experiences, acquires a personality or affirms and recovers his personality."
Personality

"Religions tend to disappear with man's good fortune."
Fortune

"The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side."
Politics

"There have been only rare moments in history where individual histories were able to run their course without wars or revolutions."
History

"Many novelists take well-defined, precise characters, whose stories are sometimes of mediocre interest, and place them in an important historical context, which remains secondary in spite of everything."
Interest

"Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey."
Fiction
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