Quotes About Alternate self

We all spend our lives living beside the people we could have been.

In one of her diary entries she wrote: 'I am a bird.'8 The artist – first as a crippled child, later as a bedridden adult – clearly craved the ultimate freedom of motion epitomized by flight. Kahlo's imaginary companion – an alternate Self – could dance in a way that defied gravity, like a weightless entity.

No less romantically than Rapunzel in her tower pined for rescue did I pine for this idealized being, a kind of alternate me, a me outside of me. A shining one who would somehow at once be my familiar, my deepest intimate, and at the same time exist thrillingly apart.