#entity

I am not made like any of those I have seen. I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#nonconformity #identity

That ain't me, that ain't my face. It wasn't even me when I was trying to be that face. I wasn't even really me them; I was just being the way I looked, the way people wanted. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#identity

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#identity

...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#identity

Protons give an atom its identity, electrons its personality. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#quantum-physics #identity

I was used to sleeping with people because I endlessly found myself in identical situations where it was easier to just fuck them than to say no. ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#identity

I have a secret secret admirer. Not only is her identity a secret—but so is the fact that she admires me.
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— Jarod Kintz

#admiration #fact #identity #secret-admirer #women

What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#labels #names #personality #identity

I've tried to become someone else for a while, only to discover that he, too, was me. ↗

— Stephen Dunn

#poem #poetry #self #identity

Alan, you seem to think we won't like you unless you do things just like everyone else. Have you ever thought we might like you because you're different? ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#identity #identity