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The past gives you an identity and the future holds the promise of salvation, of fulfillment in whatever form. Both are illusions.
ECKHART TOLLE, The Power of Now
You can't change who you are. No matter how you struggle, some things will never change. And maybe they shouldn't.
Sex ... or lack thereof ... is at the center of everyone's identity, and once you've cracked someone's desires, you understand them in full.
ARIANNE COHEN, Marie Claire Magazine, March 2008
To know another's heart, you must first know your own.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Narcissus in Chains
People fear their hidden selves, afraid that they will burst out.
GREGORY BENFORD, Foundation's Fear
The only true happiness lies in knowing who you are ... and making peace with it.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, Narcissus in Chains
I have been moving around all my life. Going to different schools, living in different houses, shedding old roles, assuming new ones. This way of life is as natural to me as staying in one place is for other people. I do variations on the theme. I return to places where I used to be. I find my old personas. I try them on. If they still fit, I wear them out to a party or a show. If they begin to restrict my movements, I take them off. I am a human being, capable of mimicking anything I see or remember or can imagine.
ELLEN GILCHRIST, Falling Through Space
Who knows who you are ... A person is a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading to the very end.
It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity.
PHILIP K. DICK, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
To know who you are is the greatest power of all.
SHERRILYN KENYON & DIANNA LOVE, Blood Trinity
When a creature has developed into one thing, he will choose death rather than change into his opposite.
FRANK HERBERT, Dune Messiah
People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart.
BERTOLT BRECHT, In the Jungle of Cities
- Well, I try my best
- To be just like I am
- But everybody wants you
- To be just like them
BOB DYLAN, "Maggie's Farm"
You cannot hide your true self forever.
CASSANDRA CLARE, City of Fallen Angels
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