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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

Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your hous...

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Most people are resistant to ideas, especially new ones. But they are fascinated by character. Extra...

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Stop thinking all the time that you're in the way, that you're bothering the person next to you. If ...

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The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when ...

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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

Character is that which can do without success.

Good breeding a union of kindness and independence.

From a personality point of view, you develop judgment, but from the sou's point of view, you develo...

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Ram DassPolishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the ...

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There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my pers...

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Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic t...

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Robert A. HeinleinStranger in a Strange Land

They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.

The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. The world is full of people with ...

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The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. The world is full of people with ...

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The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. The world is full of people with ...

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The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. The world is full of people with ...

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The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

I wish people weren't so set on being themselves, when that means being a bastard.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can tru...

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Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.

We all do things in a certain individual way, according to our temperaments. Every human act — no ma...

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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

And on the threshold of being no more I succeed in being another.

And I seemed to see myself ageing as swiftly as a day-fly. But the idea of ageing was not exactly th...

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A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.

But, in the Trump aftermath, I've measured the costsAnd benefits of loving those who don't loveStran...

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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other mode...

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Sigmund FreudSexuality and the Psychology of Love

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to conv...

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He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt...

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Stefan ZweigThe Burning Secret and other stories

Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?

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StendhalThe Red and the Black

For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would...

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A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, ...

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StendhalThe Red and the Black

Julien felt himself to be strong and resolute like a man who sees clearly into his own heart.

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StendhalThe Red and the Black

It was easier to be brave when you were someone else.

Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room flung himself upon his horse and rode madl...

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Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on it...

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I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

Recovered. Had my personality crossed over that border, whatever and wherever it was, to resume life...

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At once, it’s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don’t have the arrogance. App...

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Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own persona...

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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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