Quotes About Identity

I like Alice Cooper too, even after I learned that she is a he.

I have seen no more evident monstrosity and miracle in the world than myself.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others.

Everyone recognizes me in my book, and my book in me.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.

When all is summed up, a man never speaks of himself without loss; his accusations of himself are always believed; his praises never.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

The greatest thing in the world is for a man to know how to be himself.

she and they were all the same under the skin, weren't they?

In the end, though, vodsels couldn't do any of the things that really defined a human being. They couldn't siuwil, the couldn't mesnishtil,they had no concept of slan.

As the archaeology of our thought easily shows, man is an invention of recent date. And one perhaps nearing its end.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.

if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing

Maybe the target nowadays is not to discover what we are but to refuse what we are.

I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning. If you knew when you began a book what you would say at the end, do you think that you would have the courage to write it? What is true for writing and for love relationships is true also for life. The game is worthwhile insofar as we don't know where it will end.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.

Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same.

From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art.

it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces.

Dans le monde moderne on pouvait être échangiste, bi, trans, zoophile, SM, mais il était interdit d'être vieux. (La possibilité d'une île, Daniel 1,15)

As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.