identity Quotes

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it?

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.

God hath given you one face, and you make yourselves another.