"There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. In the end such a man becomes impossible to get hold of, since he is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes, a decked-out ghost that cannot inspire even fear and certainly not pity."

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"There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. In the end such a man becomes impossible to get hold of, since he is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes, a decked-out ghost that cannot inspire even fear and certainly not pity."

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"She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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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."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"We go to Europe to be Americanized."

Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet

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"She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"Whether it is in the way you walk, talk, dress, or behave, your personal brand impacts how people react and respond to you. It is the essence of what makes you likable, knowable, and trustworthy. And it is what can make you memorable and sought after in the marketplace."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"Wo-man: A male mind driving a female body!"

Ramana Pemmaraju, Indian Physician

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"What is YOUR personal brand? How are you packaging your unique talents, style, personality and/or products to represent who you are, what you do, and how you show yourself to the world?"

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"Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded."

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"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."

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"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

"Call me Richard. That's my real name. Call me that."

"She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two."

"But there's something missing in them, even the nice ones. It's like they're permanently absent-minded, like that can't quite remember who they are."

"We go to Europe to be Americanized."

"She suddenly remembered studying the brain in science class- how a steel rod pierced a man's skull, and he opened his mouth to speak Portuguese, a language he'd never studied. Maybe it would be like this, now, for Josie. Maybe her native tongue, from here on in, would be a string of lies."

"Whether it is in the way you walk, talk, dress, or behave, your personal brand impacts how people react and respond to you. It is the essence of what makes you likable, knowable, and trustworthy. And it is what can make you memorable and sought after in the marketplace."

"Wo-man: A male mind driving a female body!"

"What is YOUR personal brand? How are you packaging your unique talents, style, personality and/or products to represent who you are, what you do, and how you show yourself to the world?"

Explore more quotes by Friedrich Nietzsche

"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."

"I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."

"When the gratitude that many owe to one discards all modesty, then there is fame."

"Perhaps no one has yet been truthful enough about what 'truthfulness' is."

"Never to talk of oneself is a form of hypocrisy."

"Wit is the epitaph of an emotion."

"Our vanity is hardest to wound precisely when our pride has just been wounded."

"The man who fights too long against dragons becomes a dragon himself."

"One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed."

"Solitude is a virtue for us, since it is a sublime inclination and impulse to cleanliness which shows that contact between people, "society, inevitably makes things unclean. Somewhere, sometime, every community makes people-"base."