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Identity Quotes
!["Recollection builds up our personality. Our individuality is based on all the little pieces we assembled in the past. ['The past was her best friend']"](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAP///wAAACH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==)
"Recollection builds up our personality. Our individuality is based on all the little pieces we assembled in the past. ['The past was her best friend']"
93
"There is no original or primary gender a drag imitates, but gender is a kind of imitation for which there is no original."
80
"Narrative identity takes part in the story's movement, in the dialectic between order and disorder."
78
"I'm a writer first and a woman after."
52
"I don't have the identity of any of them. I only had the nicks that they used on Internet Relay Chat."
41
"I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen."
39
"What's your name,' Coraline asked the cat. 'Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?''Cats don't have names,' it said.'No?' said Coraline.'No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names."
29
"Nobody is a villain in their own story. We're all the heroes of our own stories."
28
"The human body is not necessarily a human being."
24
"At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time."
22
"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
21
"Coming out to gays is a way of affirming sanity and self-worth."
21
"Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. Not in entire forgetfulness, and not in utter nakedness, but trailing clouds of glory do we come."
20
"I am first of all from La Castellane and Marseille."
19
"I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American."
18
"I am not one and simple, but complex and many."
18
"Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation."
18
"Say I Am YouI am dust particles in sunlight.I am the round sun.To the bits of dust I say, Stay.To the sun, Keep moving.I am morning mist, and the breathing of evening.I am wind in the top of a grove, and surf on the cliff.Mast, rudder, helmsman, and keel,I am also the coral reef they founder on.I am a tree with a trained parrot in its branches.Silence, thought, and voice.The musical air coming through a flute,a spark of a stone, a flickering in metal.Both candle and the moth crazy around it.Rose, and the nightingale lost in the fragrance.I am all orders of being, the circling galaxy,the evolutionary intelligence, the lift,and the falling away. What is, and what isn't.You who know Jelaluddin, You the one in all,say who I am. Say I am You."
18
"I find myself saying briefly and prosaically that it is much more important to be oneself than anything else. Do not dream of influencing other people, I would say, if I knew how to make it sound exalted. Think of things in themselves."
17
"Canada is the only country in the world that knows how to live without an identity."
17
"In the beginning, some people try to appear that everything about them is "in black and white," until later their true colors come out."
17
"How does one hate a country, or love one? Tibe talks about it; I lack the trick of it. I know people, I know towns, farms, hills and rivers and rocks, I know how the sun at sunset in autumn falls on the side of a certain plowland in the hills; but what is the sense of giving a boundary to all that, of giving it a name and ceasing to love where the name ceases to apply? What is love of one's country; is it hate of one's uncountry? Then it's not a good thing. Is it simply self-love? That's a good thing, but one mustn't make a virtue of it, or a profession... Insofar as I love life, I love the hills of the Domain of Estre, but that sort of love does not have a boundary-line of hate. And beyond that, I am ignorant, I hope."
16
"Nico studied his face " his sea-green eyes, his grin, his ruffled black hair. Somehow Percy Jackson seemed like a regular guy now, not a mythical figure. Not someone to idolize or crush on."
15
"He marveled at the strange blindness by which men, though they are so alert to what changes in themselves, impose on their friends an image chosen for them once and for all. He was being judged by what he had been. Just as dogs don't change character, men are dogs for one another."
15
"Be an individual, let out the self that hides away at the expense of others approval."
15
"It is not possible for a man to be elegant without a touch of femininity."
14
"Assertiveness is not what you do, it's who you are!"
14
"Systematically identity top designers as early as possible. The best are often not the most experienced."
14
"Why should we change that which makes us unique?"
14
"And think about the precise meaning of that term: a Narcissus is not proud. A proud man has disdain for other people, he undervalues them. The Narcissus overvalues them, because in every person's eyes he sees his own image, and wants to embellish it. So he takes nice care of all his mirrors."
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