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  1. Hermann Hesse _ Soul of the Age: Selected

    Not everyone is allotted the chance to become a personality; most remain types, and never experience the rigor of becoming an individual. But those who do so inevitably discover that these struggles bring them into conflict with the normal life of average people and the traditional values and bourgeois conventions that they uphold. A personality is the product of a clash between two opposing forces: the urge to create a life of one's own and the insistence by the world around us that we conform. Nobody can develop a personality unless he undergoes revolutionary experiences. The extent of those experiences differs, of course, from person to person, as does the capacity to lead a life that is truly personal and unique.
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  2. Bret Easton Ellis _ American Psycho

    Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?
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  3. Paulo Coelho _ Veronika Decides to Die

    Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don't have courage to complain, that's their problem.
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  4. Jonathan Franzen _ Freedom

    The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should the dream ever sour, to misanthropy and rage.
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  5. Zadie Smith _ Feel Free: Essays

    Novels are what I know, and the novel door in my personality is always open.
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  6. Zadie Smith _ White Teeth

    Four months in the life of a seventeen-year-old is the stuff of swings and roundabouts;... Never again in your life do you possess the capacity for such total personality overhaul.
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  7. L.M. Montgomery _ Anne of Green Gables

    There's such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I'm such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn't be half so interesting.
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  8. Madeleine L'Engle _ Walking on Water: Reflections

    Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.
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  9. Truman Capote _ Breakfast at Tiffany's

    The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would change. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they'd been given their character too soon; which, like sudden riches, leads to a lack of proportion: the one had splurged herself into a top-heavy realist, the other a lopsided romantic."
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  10. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ Wait Till Next Year

    Excitement about things became a habit, a part of my personality, and the expectation that I should enjoy new experiences often engendered the enjoyment itself.
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  11. Jean-Paul Sartre _ No Exit

    I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.
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  12. Jack London _ The Sea Wolf

    At once he became an enigma. One side or the other of his nature was perfectly comprehensible; but both sides together were bewildering.
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