Quotes About Identity

to someone from nowhere, every movement turns into a return

the face turns out to be one of the most superficial characteristics of the whole human form),

What makes us most human is the possession of a unique and irreproducible story, that we take place over time and leave behind our traces.

The prison is not outside, but inside each of us.

checks the sick soggy plaster with his finger, the wet paint leaving a mark on his skin. The stains on the walls make maps of countries he can't recognize, he can't name.

Everything about my own face that seemed to me familiar and obvious had vanished; what remained was a distinctive scattering of dots that symbolized the planets set against the celestial vault. I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.

They are more than travel hubs: this is a special category of city-state, with a stable location, but citizens in flux.They are airport-republics...(a)n example of an extroverted system,where the constitution is spelled out on every ticket, and where one's boarding pass is one's only identification as a citizen.

But children aren't people. Children become people when they wriggle out of your arms and say "no.

death renders all faces similar.

people like her, those who wield a pen, can be dangerous. At once a suspicion of fakery springs to mind—that such a Person is not him- or herself, but

Cz?owiek, którego widzisz, nie dlatego istnieje, ?e go widzisz, ale dlatego, ?e to on na ciebie patrzy.

Older ladies dressed like hippies would maintain that they knew what they were doing.

estamos hechos de materia y al mismo tiempo somos ajenos a ella, que estamos separados de ella.

Poverty is nondenominational and has no national identity.

Philosophical concepts—those were what kept him up at night; they belonged to him.

In the last few years she has realized that all you have to do to become invisible is be a woman of a certain age, without any outstanding features: it's automatic.

Clearly I did not inherit whatever gene it is that makes it so that when you linger in a place you start to put down roots.

I think we all feel great ambivalence at the sight of our own Horoscope. On the one hand we're proud to see that the sky is imprinted on our individual life, like a postmark with a date stamped on a letter – this makes it distinct, one of a kind. But at the same time it's a form of imprisonment in space, like a tattooed prison number. There's no escaping it. I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.

In essence, one becomes what one participates in. In other words, I am what I look at.

her hands are hennaed in a complex design made less legible by each passing day.

Resztki zostawionej tu osobowo?ci poprzedniego go?cia trzeba zwalczy? swoj? bezosobowo?ci?. Po to jest Przemiana. Resztki odbi? tamtej twarzy w lustrze nie tylko musz? zetrze? szmatk?, ale tak?e zape?ni? lustro moj? bia?o-ró?ow? beztwarzowo?ci?. Tamten zapach zostawiony przez roztargnienie i po?piech musz? zag?uszy? moim bezzapachem.

What a methodology! It is tacitly assumed that people don't know themselves, but that if you furnish them with questions that are bright enough, they'll be able to figure themselves all out. They pose themselves a question, and they give themselves an answer. And they'll inadvertently reveal to themselves that secret they know nothing of. And that other assumption, which is terribly dangerous—that we are constant, and that our reactions can be predicted.

Drogi Mieczys?awie (...) czy zgodzi si? pan ze mn?, ?e cz?owiek istnieje tylko w j?zyku? Wszystko poza j?zykiem jest zwierz?ce i niezró?nicowane. To j?zyk sprawia, ?e jeste?my tym, kim jeste?my.

Fryderyk Chopin had always said he wanted to be buried in his native land,