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Vielleicht war das Bild, das die eigene Familie von einem hatte, zu sehr mit ihren Hoffnungen und Angsten vermischt, als dass sie einen jemals wirklich als die Person sehen konnten, die man war.
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identity
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J. Courtney Sullivan |
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You know, you seem like a completely different person, now that you're with this new boyfriend. You used to look like your husband, but now you look like David. You even dress like him and talk like him. You know how some people look like their dogs? I think maybe you always look like your men.
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identity
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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Effort has nothing to do with the changes to structure and physiology that develop as a consequence of the intensification of individuation.
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identity
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Natsuo Kirino |
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I am forty. [...] I know who I am. The treachery of possibilities that threaten to swamp a young guy -- I negotiated them. I'm on the other side. The safe side. Why then do I remember the perilous moments with such fond affection?
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youth
identity
memory
nostalgia
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Gregory Maguire |
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You are a single woman; you intend to remain one. You've acquired enough sexual experience to feel you belong to your times. You do not have children; you never intended to. Sustained romantic intensities have not been for you. Your explanation (not an untrue one,though not quite sufficient) is that you have let yourself be shaped by so many conventions, expectations, and requirements (institution's, people's), by so much dread of disapproval, that the discipline of solitude--severe solitude--has been required to give you the sense of an independent selfhood. The intensities of friendship suit you better. Friendship's choreography is for multiple partners: for varied groups and surprisingly sustained duets.
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independence
identity
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Margo Jefferson |
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Me doy cuenta ahora de que el primer dia apenas llegue a mirar. Creia estar mirando, pero solo estaba percibiendo un mero barrunto de lo que hay en estos cuadros. Ahora es cuando estoy empezando a mirar.
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identity
otherness
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Don DeLillo |
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The first time we spoke, Mr. Ambraysas told me, 'Identity is not negotiable. An identity you have achieved by agreement is always a prison.
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identity
negotiable
prison
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M. John Harrison |
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"In his book The Soul of Black Folks, W.E.B. DuBois writes about always feeling "his twoness-- an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; to warring ideals in one dark body."
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identity
discipleship
loyalty
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Ron Suskind |
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Was I like honey thinking it's a small bear, not realizing the bear is just the shape of its bottle? -Cheryl
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self-awareness
identity
cheryl
the-first-bad-man
perspective
self
perception
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Miranda July |
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We look at the Ark of the Covenant and remember who we are.
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worship
identity
encouragement
patriotism
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Geraldine Brooks |
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There's the imperative to keep secrets, and the imperative to have them known. How do you know that you're a person, distinct from other people? By keeping certain things to yourself. You guard them inside you, because, if you don't, there's no distinction between inside and outside. Secrets are the way you know you even have an inside. A radical exhibitionist is a person who has forfeited his identity. But identity in a vacuum is also meaningless. Sooner or later, the inside of you needs a witness. Otherwise you're just a cow, a cat, a stone, a thing in the world, trapped in your thingness. To have an identity, you have to believe that other identities equally exist. You need closeness with other people. And how is closeness built? By sharing secrets. Colleen knows what you secretly think of Willow. You know what Colleen secretly thinks of Flor. Your identity exists at the intersection of these lines of trust.
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identity
secrets
intimacy
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Jonathan Franzen |
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"We're by-products of the mid-twentieth century", Oliver said. "Who isn't?" --
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past
identity
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Ruth Ozeki |
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I was familiar with the little mating rituals of getting to know each other, of dragging out the stories from childhood, summer camp, and high school, the famous humiliations, and the adorable things you said as a child, the familial dramas--of having a portrait of yourself, all the while making yourself out to be a little brighter, a little more deep than deep down you knew you actually were. And though I hadn't had more than three or four relationships, I already knew that each time the thrill of telling another the story of yourself wore off a little more, each time you threw yourself into it a little less, and grew more distrustful of an intimacy that always, in the end, failed to pass into true understanding.
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relationships
identity
love
nicole-krauss
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Nicole Krauss |
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The tribal pull of patriotism could have no better testimony.
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identity
culture
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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I drive a beat-up Mercury Cougar, with the windows down and the music up. I seek my identity in toughness - but it is Morrie's softness that draws me, and because he doesn't look at me as a kid trying to be something more than I am, I relax.
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identity
music
tough
close
windows
soft
image
kid
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Mitch Albom |
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Participation in the collective life of the polis both restrains the extraordinary individual and enlarges the ordinary individual, allowing him to participate in the extraordinary. An individual can achieve participatory excellence via the accomplishments of the polis and need not always be caught up in the agnostic struggle to outdo his peers.
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identity
patriotism
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Rebecca Goldstein |
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I don't know where I belong, so I'm free. No one's got a hold on me.
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identity
identity-crisis
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Philip Pullman |