#id

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

They enveloped each other within the folds of their thoughts, holding each other with an intimacy no physical embrace could replicate, allowing their identities to merge once again. Their greatest comfort was a simple one: they were no longer alone. To know that you were with the one who cared for you, and who understood every fiber of your being, and who would not abandon you even in the most desperate of circumstances, that was the most precious relationship a person could have, and they both cherished it. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#intoxicating #identity

To hold power has always meant to manipulate idiots and circumstances; and those circumstances and those idiots, tossed together, bring about those coincidences to which even the greatest men confess they owe most of their fame ↗

— Alfred de Vigny

#idiocy #power #fame

Young minds - young brains - need stories and ideas like the ones in those [censored and banned] books in order to grow. They need ideas that you disagree with. They need ideas that I disagree with. Or they'll never be able to figure out what ideas they believe in. ↗

— Lev Grossman

#censorship #growth #ideas #young-minds #censorship

We lived in the bowels of New York City. It was a struggle just to survive. This nice suburban kid hadn't had to do much of that before. ↗

— Peter Bergman

#bowels #city #had #hadn #just

I really do think that if for one week in the United States we saw the true face of war, we saw people's limbs sheared off, we saw kids blown apart, for one week, war would be eradicated. Instead, what we see in the U.S. media is the video war game. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#atrocities #casualties #kids #media #war

Apabila sebagai pengarang harus kutangguhkan begitu banyak ketidakadilan di tanahair sendiri, penganiayaan lahir-batin, perampasan kebebasan dari penghidupan, hak dan milik, penghinaan dan tuduhan, bahkan juga perampasan hak untuk membela diri melalui mass-media mau pun pengadilan, aku hanya bisa mengangguk mengerti. Sayang sekali kekuasaan tak bisa merampas harga diri, kebanggaan diri, dan segala sesuatu yang hidup dalam batin siapa pun. ↗

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#hak #harga-diri #hidup #pengadila #pengarang