"The Bible says that our real problem is that every one of us is building our identity on something besides Jesus."
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"The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability to conceive a priori of melodic identities which when transposed, inverted, made retrograde, or transformed rhythmically will yet exhibit, in conjunction with the original subject matter, some entirely new but completely harmonious profile."
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"Violence, whether spiritual or physical, is a quest for identity and the meaningful. The less identity, the more violence."
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"The things we really need come to us only as gifts, and in order to receive them as gifts we have to be open. In order to be open we have to renounce ourselves, in a sense we have to die to our image of ourselves, our autonomy, our fixation upon our self-willed identity."
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"Integrity simply means not violating one's own identity."
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"I find confidence seductive. Confidence, to me, is being happy in your own identity and not being influenced by others. I find that quite seductive because I'm a 50-50 person: in some ways I'm confident, and in some ways I'm quiet, reclusive. [I] like someone who can shake me out of that and approach me."
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"Integrity simply means a willingness not to violate one's identity, in the many ways in which such violation is possible."
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"Today, our sexuality is an open-ended personal project; it is part of who we are, an identity, and no longer merely something we do."
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"Dessert doesn't count if you eat under an assumed identity."
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"Each time this identity announces itself, someone or something cries: Look out for the trap, youre caught. Take off, get free, disengage yourself."
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"Gender is an identity tenuously constituted in time, instituted in an exterior space through a stylized repetition of acts."
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"Indeed it may be only by risking the incoherence of identity that connection is possible."
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"The identity that we ascribe to things is only a fictitious one, established by the mind, not a peculiar nature belonging to what we’re talking about."
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"Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level"
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"My friend, I am not what I seem. Seeming is but a garment I wear — a care-woven garment that protects me from thy questionings and thee from my negligence. The "I" in me, my friend, dwells in the house of silence, and therein it shall remain for ever more, unperceived, unapproachable."
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"Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric revolution, the wired planet, and the information environment involve everybody in everybody to the point of individual extinction."
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"He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends."
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"In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight."
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"To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude toward Afrika become positive, you'll find that your understanding of and your attitude toward yourself will also become positive."
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"A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body."
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