Quotes About Identity

Mon vœu, quand j'ai commencé à écrire, a été d'être un écrivain roumain. Comme tant d'autres avant moi, qu'ils aient été grecs (I[on] L[uca] Caragiale, Alexandru A. Philippide), arméniens (Garabet Ibr?ileanu), juifs (Mihail Sebastian, Max Blecher) ou de bien d'autres origines, depuis le Géorgien Antim Ivireanul, jusqu'au « russe » Nichita St?nescu.

The solution to the problem of identity is, get lost

Involuted Eros and involuted aggression constitute the "autonomous self" or what passes for individuality in the human species.

Here, and everywhere, psychoanalysis must take the paradoxical position that the Child is Father to the Man; that Primal Father was once a boy, and, if there is anything to psychoanalysis, owes his disposition to his boyhood.

Our repressed desires are the desires we had, unrepressed, in childhood; and they are sexual desires

He wants us to understand that we are only branches which have changed trees. We never produced fruit without a tree! To

And the question was still there of whether their true interior selves—the subtle bodies inside—were still there and functioning despite what age and accident and force of circumstance may have done to hurt them. He meant something like that Ã¢â'¬Â¦ that when they had become friends it had been a friendship established between subtle bodies, by which he meant the ingredients of what they were to be Ã¢â'¬Â¦

The saddest day of your life isn't when you decide to sell out. The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out and nobody wants to buy.

Los Pilotos tienen un concepto muy exagerado de su propia importancia, pensó D'mahl. ¿Y en qué los convierte eso? - Tres... dos... uno... En seres humanos.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

Who you are is limited only by who you think you are.

Name yourself in your heart and know who you are.

The story of loss and regaining of identity is the framework, I think, of all literature

The Canada to which we really do owe loyalty is the Canada that we have failed to create.

Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.

Imagine a part of the U.S.A., from which the U.S.A. started - where is the cradle of your history? This is Kosovo for Serbia.

But, it's because we have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history that we had. We have to dig deeper and we have to do much more in order to be seen and to be spotted.

We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.

I often feel, and ever more deeply I realize, that Fate and character are the same conception.

The artist belongs to his work, not the work to the artist.

Philosophy is properly home-sickness the wish to be everywhere at home.

Philosophy is really homesickness: the urge to be at home everywhere.

And now I awaken, for I am both yours and mine.