"I saw and heard of none like me. Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled, and whom all men disowned?"
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"Reject labels. Reject identities. Reject conformity. Reject convention. Reject definitions. Reject names."
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"When you're a kid you have this sense of wonder and wholeness and a strong sense of your own identity."
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"Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores."
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"Be alert and present and see that your identity is not from your past story; who you truly are is the alert presence that is inseparable from the present moment. You are this, which has no name and no form."
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"A group needs enemies, because without enemies its identity cannot continue to be defined."
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"All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self. What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself - a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required. I am a theater and nothing more than a theater."
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"The willingness to reach inside every part of yourself opens the door to total understanding. You place your entire identity on the line, not just an isolated part. This may sound daunting, but actually it’s the most natural way to approach any situation. When you hold some part of yourself in reserve you deny it exposure to life; you repress its energy and keep it form understanding what it needs to know."
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"The hallucination of separateness prevents one from seeing that to cherish the ego is to cherish misery. We do not realize that our so-called love and concern for the individual is simply the other face of our own fear of death or rejection. In his exaggerated valuation of separate identity, the personal ego is sawing off the branch on which he is sitting, and then getting more and more anxious about the coming crash!"
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"The fact that schools can actually be a major factor in cementing the world is a factor that's worth considering, the fact that we all have a shared human identity in addition to many other identities."
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"A trite word is an overused word which has lost its identity like an old coat in a second-hand shop. The familiar grows dull and we no longer see, hear, or taste it."
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"This miracle of me is mine to own and keep, and mine to guard, and mine to use, and mine to kneel before."
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"A person's memory is everything, really. Memory is identity. It's you."
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"Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears."
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"Each nation has an identity and destiny. As far as Bharat is concerned, Hindu is its identity and religion is its way of working"
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"Where there is true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity."
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"Because we are a conglomerate of our experiences - you take away any experience and you take away a piece of identity. You take away a piece of identity and we don't really know who we are."
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"In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims."
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"Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve."
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"You are, when all is done-just what you are."
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