Quotes About Identity

You have two lives in you, Alice. The one you know, and another one. One that has been waiting for you for a very long time. They have nothing in common, apart from you.

Il faut croire que nous, les Polonais, avions la maladie de vouloir changer de nationalité.

Libérese de esos lugares comunes! La creencia es una cuestión religiosa, pero la espiritualidad nace de nuestra conciencia, no importa quiénes seamos o quiénes creamos ser.

Fiecare oglind? îÅ£i ofer? imaginea unui spectacol jucat f?r? niciun spectator, în care actriÅ£a e propria-Å£i mizerie.

For Sanji, like any foreigner, a moment of uncertainty ensued. Would he be singled out for his appearance, led into an interrogation room, and sent back home for any number of reasons? The officer finally stamped his passport, scribbled the date by which he had to leave the United States, and told him to move along.

Får jag påminna dig om att du inte ens kände honom för några dagar sedan? - Det är mitt blod som rinner i hans ådror, så om jag säger att han är genom hederlig ber jag dig att inte tvivla på det

If you have a handlebar mustache, that is pretty much all you are. You are a delivery system for a handlebar mustache.

Generalisations about 'the Anglo-Saxons' are consequently difficult,

But they were at least allowed to retain the fig leaf of royal status.

at least three of these men had previously been pleased to describe themselves as kings of Sussex.

and in British culture they saw nothing they wished to emulate.

everybody living in the empire was considered a Roman citizen,

and in witnessing the same grant he went even further, referring to himself as 'king of Britain'.

we have almost no idea of how the vikings saw themselves, because as pagans they were illiterate,

had remained a Christian.

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

William Shakespeare: Can you love a fool? Viola De Lesseps: Can you love a player?

As a child, at the age when others promise to be Chateaubriand or nothing, I had written that I would be myself or nothing. I had certainly not foreseen that one day I would find myself in the position of being both myself and nothing. 65

Tell me what you laught at, and I'll tell you who you are.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.

A book is the product of a different self from the self we manifest in our habits, in our social life, in our vices.

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader's recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book's truth.

Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have of them.