Identity Quotes

"Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition." "Our lives teach us who we are" "No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing." "The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important" "Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him" "As for me, I thought that it would be enough just to mimic the prominent personages we came across or the grown-ups we encountered" "Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction" "Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it." "What labels me, negates me." "I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of." "The art of a people is a true mirror to their minds" "To survive, you must tell stories" "The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else" "The ego is nothing other than the focus of conscious attention." "When you judge another you do not define them you define yourself" "People like you to be something, preferably what they are" "I might bе happier if I was someone else" "It is evident that everything is in a continual flux, and it is as impossible to find any certain individual in the world as it is to take up any definite quantity of water in the ocean." "You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul." "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was"