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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...

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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as function...

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I had been thinking a lot about how the media has created this complex, fictionalized cartoon versio...

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Well, the terrible fact is that though we are all more or less thinking of something or other all th...

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The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Bec...

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Where there is personality, there is discord.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year roun...

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The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.

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Thornton WilderThe Bridge of San Luis Rey

I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust...

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The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete over...

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Truman CapoteBreakfast at Tiffany's

The strength of Shevek's personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-d...

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When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.

I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a po...

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(...) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale.

For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a...

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People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back.They know only too well that misfortune ...

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how man...

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. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

Everything he said should be followed by a big sic

The nineteenth was the first century of human sympathy, -- the age when half wonderingly we began to...

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I do not like these painted faces that look all alike; and I think women are foolish to dull their e...

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W. Somerset MaughamCollected Short Stories: Volume 1

A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to...

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It is native personality and that alone that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals ...

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We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is a...

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Years later, on a Steve Jobs discussion board on the website Gawker, the following tale appeared fro...

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Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as ...

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It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most peopl...

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Style personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-fac...

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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your co...

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Every man in the world is better than some one else. And not as good as some one else.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people your character will take care of itself.

Keisha Blake, whose celebrated will and focus did not leave her much room for angst, watched her fri...

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The perfection of yoga, therefore, does not terminate in voidness or impersonalism; on the contrary,...

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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute befo...

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A little difficult to know where you were with Elinor. She didn't reveal much of what she thought an...

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There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves ...

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Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no p...

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I was one of those weird kids who didn't really speak or smile. I remember my teachers would call ho...

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Waiting in the reception area, she had flicked through a news magazine that had been lying on the ta...

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There were some people, it seemed, who were incapable of being pleasant about anything. Of course, t...

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Alexander McCall SmithThe Good Husband of Zebra Drive

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in...

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Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. W...

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the wor...

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I had already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with lots of personality, and ac...

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She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of hersel...

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of oursel...

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André GideStrait is the Gate and The Vatican Cellars

I am a deeply superficial person.

I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want ...

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He lost the great big outward thing, the good- looking package, and the real parts endured. They shi...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in th...

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Anne RiceInterview with the Vampire

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellenc...

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In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand ...

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Altruism declares that any action taken for the benefit of others is good and any action taken for ...

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Glamour comes from within. My beauty regime begins with my personality.

The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics 2) constitutional means 3) ...

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I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

He was not of an age but for all time.

He has not a single redeeming defect.

There is no index of character as sure as the voice.

Character is a question of time. It lasts for a certain length of time, just like a glove. There are...

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Bertolt BrechtFear and Misery of the Third Reich

I just have one of those faces. People come up to me and say, 'What's wrong?' Nothing. 'Well, it tak...

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It´s a good thing when a man is different from your image of him. Is shows he isn´t a type. If he we...

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Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath.

Marsh: Our best efforts were never even a mild annoyance to the Lord Ruler."Kelsier: Ah, but being a...

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I've always been very confident in my immaturity.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is de...

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Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Positive expectations are the mark of the superior personality.

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Brian TracyMaximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills that Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed

At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or ...

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Power is not of a man. Wealth does not center in the person of the wealthy. Celebrity is not inheren...

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An artist is a person first.

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Chaim PotokMy Name Is Asher Lev

She was perfect, pure maddening sex, and she knew it, and she played on it, dripped it, and allowed ...

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the worst thing," he told me,"is bitterness, people end up sobitter.

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Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

I’m torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.

He is a good and a great man; but he forgets, pitilessly, the feelings and claims of little people, ...

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Now for the hitch in Jane's character,' he said at last, speaking more calmly than from his look I h...

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In catalepsy and a dead trance, I studiously held the quick of my nature.

Our natures own predilections and antipathies alike strange. There are people from whom we secretly ...

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I've always had a big personality. I was trickier as a kid. I behaved erratically instead of consist...

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I have always maintained a strong opposition to marriage because I would have to be in serious denia...

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Parrots make great pets. They have more personality than goldfish.

I think Freddie Mercury is probably the best of all time in terms of a rock voice. There was a vulne...

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It is indeed strange, given the heavy emphasis placed by chroniclers on Churchill's sheer magnitude ...

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Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so ove...

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Resentment was the hinge of her personality.

I don't blame you one iota for feeling as you do. If I were you I would undoubtedly feel just as you...

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Dale CarnegieHow to Win Friends and Influence People

An image is not simply a trademark, a design, a slogan or an easily remembered picture. It is a stud...

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Moderation is based on the idea that things do not fit neatly together. Politics is likely to be a c...

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I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and t...

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David Foster WallaceA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

He would never need a knife to spread a pat of butter on his toast. That smile would quickly melt it...

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