"Things that are very significant and important to you when constructing an identity when you're younger change."
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"At least when one speaks of oneself one is passionate, well-informed and specific."
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"We know that where community exists in confers upon its members identity, a sense of belonging, and a measure of security. . . . Communities are the ground-level generators and preservers of values and ethical systems."
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"As far as all of our identities are dependent on how other people imagine us we are all making ourselves and each other up all the time"
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"I suppose identity depends on memory. And if my memory is blotted out, then I wonder if I exist - I mean, if I am the same person. Of course, I don't have to solve that problem. It's up to God, if any."
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"Memory is identity....You are what you have done; what you have done is in your memory; what you remember defines who you are; when you forget your life you cease to be, even before your death."
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"Surely binationalism is not love, but there is, we might say, a necessary and impossible attachment that makes a mockery of identity, an ambivalence that emerges from the decentering of the nationalist ethos and that forms the basis of a permanent ethical demand."
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"Do we need recourse to a happier state before the law in order to maintain that contemporary gender relations and the punitive production of gender identities are oppressive?"
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"You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources."
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"To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity."
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"There's no point in arguing with partisan supporters. Their views are their identity. Nothing you can tell the most phlegmatic follower."
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"I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man."
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