Identity Quotes

"Perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition " "Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity" "Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror But you are eternity and you are the mirror" "Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are" "We have confused the real and the extraordinary to the point where we no longer know which is which" "Time is the substance I am made of Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire" "I am not sure that I exist actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited" "Every other is completely other" "Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets" "We inhabit a language rather than a country" "The city does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand" "The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself" "I’ve been afraid of changing because I built my life around you." "Your job is to tell your story." "I have an existential map it has 'You are here' written all over it" "Man is what he believes." "Freedom is the essence of self-consciousness." "It is better to be a person, than a personage" "I too am America" "Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another"