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Tag: identity, self

Jean-Paul Sartre

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

Terry Tempest Williams

When I said, “I am my mother, but I’m not,” I was saying my path would be my own.

Masamune Shirow

Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simply are. There is no way to know why.

You are the decision you make. The things you do. The people you love and who love you. They’re the things that really make you who you are.

He was himself, and he knew what he had been.

When the machine of a human being is turned on, it seems to produce a protagonist, just as a television produces an image. I think this protagonist, this self, often recognizes that it is a fictional construct, but it also recognizes that thinking of itself as such might cause it to disintegrate.

Is it possible to cause so much misery to another human being, simply by being oneself? she wondered, feeling a reflection of that misery. No help for it; she must continue to be herself.