identity
“The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.”
“I am Providence.”
“We read books to find out who we are.”
“We are what we believe we are.”
“I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.”
“Color and I are one. I am a painter.”
“The self is a relation that relates itself to itself.”
“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
“A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.”
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.”
“History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”
“Home is not where you are born; it is where all your attempts to escape cease.”
“We are formed by what we desire.”
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.”
“As a body everyone is single, as a soul never.”
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.”
“Live in fragments no longer.”