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Philip Pullman _ The Broken Bridge
I don't know where I belong, so I'm free. No one's got a hold on me.
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Nick Hornby _ The Polysyllabic Spree
All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.
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Milan Kundera _ Immortality
Agnes subtracts from her self everything that is exterior and borrowed, in order to come closer to her sheer essence {even with the risk that zero lurks at the bottom of the subtraction}. Laura's method is precisely the opposite: in order to make her self ever more visible, perceivable, seizable, sizeable, she keeps adding to it more and more attributes and she attempts to identify herself with them {with the risk that the essence of the self may be buried by the additional attributes}.
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Milan Kundera _ The Joke
Who was the real me? I can only repeat: I was a man of many faces.At meetings I was earnest, enthusiastic, and committed; among friends, unconstrained and given to teasing; with Marketa, cynical and fitfully witty; and alone {and thinking of Marketa}, unsure of myself and as agitated as a schoolboy.Was the last face the real one?No. They were all real: I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be. {I was frightened by the differences between one face and the next; none of them seemed to fit me properly, and I groped my way clumsily among them.}"
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Milan Kundera _ Identity
Darling, my darling, don't think that I don't love you or that I didn't love you, but it's precisely because I love you that I couldn't have become what I am today if you were still here. It's impossible to have a child and despise the world as it is, because that's the world we've put the child into. The child makes us care about the world, think about it's future, willingly join in its racket and its turmoils, take its incurable stupidity seriously.
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Katie McGarry _ Dare You To
Yesterday Allison bought me nail polish in the annoying shade of mauve. How can anyone look at me and think mauve?
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John O'Donohue _ Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic
The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.
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Margaret Atwood _ Bluebeard's Egg
People change, though, especially after they are dead.
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Robin McKinley _ Chalice
She thought, I need no cup. I am Chalice. I am filling with the grief and hurt and fear of my demesne; the shattered earthlines weigh me down; I am brimming with the needs of my people.
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Orson Scott Card _ Xenocide
Human beings *do* metamorphose. They change their identity constantly. However, each new identity thrives on the delusion that it was always in possession of the body it has just conquered.
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Orson Scott Card _ Ender's Game
Valentine went back to class without answering. That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to other worlds, to spread mankind so far across the galaxy that no danger, no invasion could ever threaten the human race with annihilation. "The most noble title any child can have," Demosthenes wrote, "is Third.
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Orson Scott Card _ Ender's Game
I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.
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