Quotes About Multiplicity

My family never told me like you have to be one thing. What do you want to be when you grow up? They think it's the most ridiculous question. You can be many, many things.

If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to do.

Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons.

The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers.

Hélas! Albertine était plusieurs personnes.

For Nature is so full of variety, that our weak Senses cannot perceive all the various sorts of her Creatures; neither is there any one object perceptible by all our Senses, no more then several objects are by one sense.

La storia è un millepiedi e ogni piede tira da una parte diversa, e in mezzo c'è il nostro corpo.

The technique of a great seducer requires a facility and an indifference in passing from one object of affection to another which I could never have; however that may be, my loves have left me more often than I have left them, for I have never been able to understand how one could have enough of any beloved. The desire to count up exactly the riches which each new love brings us, and to see it change, and perhaps watch it grow old, accords ill with multiplicity of conquests.

Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

I keep wondering, how many people do you need to be, before you can become yourself.

All is one and all is different.

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What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

There is only one woman in the world. One woman, with many faces.

many high-functioning multiples are gifted writers and artists, who, as they heal, are able to find an aesthetic outlet for the sealed-off rage and pain they have not allowed themselves to feel.

What is manifold is often frightening because it is not neat and simple. Men prefer to forget how many possibilities are open to them.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

Love takes many forms. It is an ifinite emotion that can never fully be contained. You can not make yourself stop loving someone. You can not choose who you fall in love with, You can love many people at the same time, but most of all, you can never stop reaching for it.

Maybe there was no one way to define it. Maybe there were as many shades of love as the blues of the sky.

The fabric of human life is woven with relationships. Once we thematize the importance of dialogue, the multiplicity of ongoing and created situations in which dialogical skills can be nurtured abound. As we have seen, this requires us to slow down and turn toward each other, having a clear sense of the relationship between our current footing in dialogue with one another and the future we are trying to create. The nurture of dialogical capacities is essential to human liberation.

When you solve one problem, you will see ten more.

I have been so many different people, played so many different roles in my life. I am not a person. I am a crowd in one body. I was people I hated and people I admired. I was exciting and boring and happy and infinitely sad.

You are right to think of these lives like a piano where you're playing tunes that aren't really you. You are forgetting who you are. In becoming everyone, you are becoming no one. You are forgetting your root life. You are forgetting what worked for you and what didn't. You are forgetting your regrets.

I have been so many different people, played so many different roles in my life. I am not a person. I am a crowd in one body. I was people I hated and people I admired. I was exciting and boring and happy and infinitely sad. I was both on the right and wrong side of history.