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You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as you - or else I...

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of int...

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of int...

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of int...

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In the progress of personality, first comes a declaration of independence, then a recognition of int...

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Not everyone is allotted the chance to become a personality; most remain types, and never experience...

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Hermann HesseSoul of the Age: Selected Letters

However gross a man may be, the minute he expresses a strong and genuine affection, some inner secre...

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Football fans share a universal language that cuts across many cultures and many personality types. ...

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He was a six and a half foot scowl.(on Rachmaninov)

Captain West advanced to meet me, and before our outstretched hands touched, before his face broke f...

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Jack LondonThe Mutiny of the Elsinore

No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to ...

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Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

You have to be somebody before you can share yourself.

My girlfriend bought me a down jacket, she said it fit my personality.

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opp...

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We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seeded refusal of that which others have made of ...

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I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do jus...

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As a dad, you are the Vice President of the executive branch of parenting. It doesn't matter what yo...

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The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a rol...

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Personality is everything in art and poetry.

Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and overlook the motive and of learned folk to d...

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He said, it's rather like your voice. You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven...

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But however good you get at translating personality into line or paint it's no go if your personalit...

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I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what´s cool".

I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what´s cool.

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

He really was beautiful. I know boys aren’t supposed to be, but he was.

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John Green (author)The Fault in Our Stars

With commentating, I've had a chance to show the humorous side of my personality that I didn't use o...

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Henry liked fun and avoided when he could any solemn or serious matter, for he confused these with s...

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And is usually true of a man of one idea, [Charles] became obsessed.

Sometimes in the summer evenings they walked up the hill to watch the afterglow clinging to the tops...

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Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically ...

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The personality susceptible to the dream of limitless freedom is a personality also prone, should th...

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I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the w...

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Jonathan Safran FoerExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close

I wondered how far I should turn out faithful to that ideal conception of one's own personality ever...

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Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting things he has got.

Tell me what you pay attention to and I will tell you who you are.

I feel very transparent in myself. I’m more of an observer. I’m interested in what’s going on. I’m n...

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I wanted to protect my professorial dignity and not lay myself open to laughter from the Americans, ...

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Jules VerneTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea

Most people, in my opinion, steal much of what they are. If they didn't what poor items they would b...

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Though why should we expect age to mellow us? If it isn't life's business to reward merit, why shoul...

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And say to all the world "This was a man!"

It’s ignorant to think you know everything about a person. There’s many different sides to everybody...

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I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do...

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I use bits and pieces of others personalities to form my own.

If personality expresses itself by acts of discrimination, and discrimination, besides being taboo, ...

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I was always an unusual girl.My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due...

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The main qualities that had earned him this universal respect in the service were, first, an extreme...

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I am not a visionary. I'm an engineer. I'm happy with the people who are wandering around looking at...

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Individualism is rather like innocence there must be something unconscious about it.

'Ludacris' is something that I made up. It just kind of describes me. Sometimes I have like a split ...

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I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.

Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses...

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Madeleine L'EngleWalking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art

Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit ...

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Gansey had always felt as if there were two of him: the Gansey who was in control, able to handle an...

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I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.

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Mahatma GandhiThe Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life

Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, fromBirth must be reviewed. All ...

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Malcolm XThe Autobiography of Malcolm X

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, bec...

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A 'sadist' of her kind is an artist in evil, which a wholly wicked person could not be...

His [Morel's] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every directi...

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It was like every attitude or action which reveals a man's deep and hidden character; they bear no r...

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Swann, with that almost arrogant charity of a man of the world who, amid the dissolution of all his ...

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Even when she had to make some one a present of the kind called 'useful,' when she had to give an ar...

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I never allow myself to be influenced in the smallest degree either by atmospheric disturbances or b...

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A 'real' person, profoundly as we may sympathise with him, is in a great measure perceptible only th...

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An excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the f...

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It's a special person - and personality - who can lead a start-up to soaring success and sustain tha...

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I'm not hard I'm frightfully soft. But I will not be hounded.

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibi...

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But little else could deter Craig Binky, for he believed that everything about him was destined to b...

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Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

I was born modest not all over but in spots.

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the persona...

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As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a pe...

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The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you c...

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The emotional, loving, moody child had small chance of developing into a happy woman. Had she as a g...

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We are all lumps, and of so various and inform a contexture, that every piece plays, every moment, i...

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In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, make...

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Cute is when a person's personality shines through their looks. Like in the way they walk, every tim...

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He knew everything about big Mike Ainsel in this moment, and he liked Mike Ainsel. Mike Ainsel had n...

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Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's p...

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Neil GaimanThe Graveyard Book

This is about systemic, institutional corruption, not personality. To ask the Democratic leadership ...

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I discourage a cult of personality.

...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?

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Nicole KraussThe History of Love

Character is perfectly educated will.

I imagine it feels like bathing in ice to the person touching her. But how does it feel to her? Cold...

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Does it help if we're so strong-willed, stubborn, ambitious, and selfish that we always overcome eve...

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For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.

I have an unfortunate personality.

Art, even the art of fullest scope and widest vision, can never really show us the external world. A...

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At every single moment of one's life one is going to be no less than what one has been.

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Man is complete in himself. When they go into the world, the world will disagree with them. That is ...

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Oscar WildeDer Sozialismus und die Seele des Menschen

From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was domi...

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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They ar...

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The things people say of a man do not alter a man. He is what he is. Public opinion is of no value w...

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Oscar WildeThe Soul of Man Under Socialism

Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.

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Oscar WildeThe Soul of Man Under Socialism

The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace.

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Oscar WildeThe Soul of Man Under Socialism

Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is n...

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I wish I felt as calm as I look