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Identity Quotes
"My name is growing all the time, and I've lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to."
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"You are still the colour of my blood. You are my blood. When I look in the mirror it's not my own face I see. Your body is twice. Once you once me. Can I be sure which is which?"
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"He's not that smart."She's right, Augustus says. "It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations."Right, it's primarily his hotness."It can be sort of blinding, he said."It actually did blind our friend Isaac."Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?"You cannot."It is my burden, this beautiful face."Not to mention your body."Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away, he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank."
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"Take off my clothes and there becomes a man. Take off my skin and there becomes my bones. Break all my bones and there becomes my heart. Smash my heart and there becomes my soul. And that you cannot take. And what is my soul?...It is everything that make a man. It is everything that makes this man."
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"Everyone has a character but sometimes it becomes less."
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"Our identity should be about what sphere of life we ought to bring to light as Christians."
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"My BODY isn't flawed, your thinking is. #UniquelyMe"
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"Once he said to her: 'You are like me; you are different from other people. You are Kamala and no one else, and within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat any time and be yourself, just as I can. Few people have that capacity and yet everyone could have it."
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"I'm a modern mountebank - I believe in Physiognomy - after all, we are in control of our face - it's the map of where we've been..."
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"I'm sorry to disappoint you, but my experience belongs to me, not the collective bloody unconscious."
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"If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways."
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"It's improbable for me to become lost, because I am already self-realized. A blank scene is a portrait of a glass kingdom to me. In order to become lost, one must not be able to realize their own identity, ego, and self."
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"You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans."
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"When he was young, he told her, each phase of his life, each self he tried on, had seemed reassuringly temporary. Its imperfections didn't matter, because he could easily replace one moment by the next, one Saladin by another."
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"She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about you when I first saw you, I felt at once that you weren't like everybody else."
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"I personally like being unique. I like being my own person with my own style and my own opinions and my own toothbrush."
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"She was herself in their company but a very specific version of herself."
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"She had never done these things before; she did them expertly. She had a capacity for action, a competence that clashed incongruously with her appearance."
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"Of man there is little here: therefore do their women masculinize themselves. For only he who is man enough will save the woman in woman."
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"If we make a fly-on-the-wall review of our history and connect the significant scenarios from our memory, we can develop a comprehensive pattern of our identity that throws a whirl of light on the secreted framework of our life. ['Labyrinth of the mind']"
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"It is very difficult to appreciate from the outside what a person in severe anxiety is experiencing. Brown rightly remarked about his friends 'imploring a drowning man [me] to swim when they don't know that under the water his hands and feet are tied."
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"Who are you? Rabbit and Souris call you 'Alice,' me and Dee call you 'Faye.' I just didn't know if 'Alice' was your poker-playing, Southern Hemisphere name or what. Hey, I'm just trying to fit in here. If I should be introducing myself as 'Clark,' I want to know about it sooner rather than later so I don't embarrass myself."
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"All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints."
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"Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."
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"England and the English governing class never did call on this absurd deity of race until it seemed, for an instant, that they had no other god to call on, the truth of the whole matter is very simple. Nationality exists, and has nothing in the world to do with race. Nationality is a thing like a church or a secret society. It is the product of the human soul and will; it is a spiritual product. And there are men, who would think anything and do anything rather than admit anything could be a spiritual product."
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"Don't become manipulated by the illusion of who you think you are, or who you think you should be."
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"Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an au."
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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."
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"Woman, don't you know, is such a subject that however much you study it, it's always perfectly new."
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"If you want the truth about being different,all you have to do is look in the mirror."
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"There is nobody else on earth like you and me. Let us be who we are meant to be."
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"If you were a country," I said, "what would your national anthem be?"I meant a pre-existing song -- "What a Wonderful World" or "Que Sera, Sera" or something to make it a joke, like "Hey Ya!" ("I would like, more than anything else, for my nation to be shaken like a Polaroid picture.")"
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"We are not afraid of rivalry, for we are unique."
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"Rachel: You're a half-blood, too?Annabeth: Shhh! Just announce it to the world, how about?Rachel: Okay. Hey, everybody! These two aren't human! They're half Greek god!...They don't seem to care."
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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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"When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose your self-worth in the process."
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