Quotes About Identity

Pensar sobre a roupa, sobre roupas, significa pensar sobre memória, mas também sobre poder e posse.

A roupa tende pois a estar poderosamente associada com a memória ou, para dizer de forma mais forte, a roupa é um tipo de memória.

Du bist, was du liebst, nicht wer dich liebt. [...] Was ich damit sagen wolle? [...] Dass ein Mensch, der liebt, immer schon gewonnen hat, egal ob sich seine Liebe erfüllt oder nicht.

Ich glaube, das ist es, was ich an Büchern immer gemocht habe. Dass sie unabänderlich sind. Man muss sie gar nicht lesen. Es reicht, sie zu besitzen, sie in die Hand zu nehmen und zu wissen, dass sie immer so bleiben, wie sie sind.

Qué somos, en definitiva, sin nuestras mentiras?

Because Judas is the only one of the twelve with two names, Judas and Iscariot, and that second name most obviously suggests he had come from afar to the Galilean hills, he is implicitly being cast from the very start as the outsider. That

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

To feel our character, our personality, and our personal, hard-won history fade from being is to be exposed to whatever lies beneath these comforting, operational conveniences. What remains when the conscious and functioning self has been erased is mankind's fundamental condition – irrational, violent, guilt-wracked, despairing, and mad.

There is a known correlation between denial of one's sexuality and a propensity to self-destructive behaviour.

And I ask why am I black, they say I was born in sin, and shamed inequity. One of the main songs we used to sing in church makes me sick, 'love wash me and I shall be whiter than snow.

Ich hatte Angst in ein Gasthaus zu gehen wenn Bauern drinnensaßen. Ich dachte mir daß sie nichts Gutes über mich denken. Ich überwand diese Angst mit der Vorstellung etwas Besonderes zu sein. Das Besondere bestand in meinem Leid. Ich war erfüllt von dem Maß meiner Leiden. Ich habe Angst diese Leiden aufzugeben weil ich nicht weiß was dann von mir übrigbleibt.

The lack of a personal core is at the base of such men, the inability to support doubt in any form, the fear of facing themselves...

More and more Burundians have started redefining the enemy not as all people of the other ethnicity but as extremists on the other side, or even as politicians of all stripes. By

She did not kill anyone, Perry insisted, because at the time of the 1990 murders, "Donna" did not exist. Whatever evidence the police had was associated with Douglas Perry, her former male incarnation.

You only have one life to live. How you live that life is your choice. As far as I know, no one has ever had 'I wish I had bought more stuff' inscribed on their tombstone. What you own can easily blind you to who you are and what you can be.

Of India he (Sir John Strachey) had pronounced (and in reissues of "India: Its Administration and Progress" continually repeated) that nothing by that name existed. "This is the first and most essential fact about India that can be learned.

Much later, (S.A.Ayer) credited (Subhas Chandra) Bose with combining in his person "the qualities of Akbar, Shivaji and Vivekananda," which is a little like saying that Charles de Gaulle was Joan of Arc, Louis XIV and Victor Hugo all rolled into one.

This council was called the boule and it was scarcely less cumbersome, consisting of 500 citizens, not elected but chosen by ballot, the point being that in this way it never developed a corporate identity which might have corrupted and distorted the business of the Assembly.

Dogs are always going to come up short if you insist on defining them as a weird kind of cat.

I think I'll call you Cygnus," Chelsea said. "The swan?" I said. A bit precious, but it could have been worse. She shook her head. "Black hole. Cygnus X-1.

Humans didn't really fight over skin tone or ideology; those were just handy cues for kin-selection purposes. Ultimately it always came down to bloodlines and limited resources.

She can still feel the memory of what it was to be fully human, and mistake that ghost for honest sensation.

you gotta let go of this whole self thing. Identity changes by the second, you turn into someone else every time a new thought rewires your brain.

Identity changes by the second, you turn into someone else every time a new thought rewires your brain. You're already a different person than you were ten minutes ago.