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• A poet is the most unpoetical of anything in existence; because he has no identity he is continually informing and filling some other body.

  John Keats

  Poetry, Literature, Body

  John Keats (1994). “The Works of John Keats: With an Introduction and Bibliography”, p.9, Wordsworth Editions

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• In the mirror of your paper you will discover your identity as an artist.

  Rex Brandt

  Artist, Mirrors, Over You

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• We need to go inward instead of outward, and learn to trust our own inner guide, preserving our identity and finding the answers from within.

  Jane Fulton Alt

  Individuality, Needs, Inward

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• Those who first invented and then named the constellations were storytellers. Tracing an imaginary line between a cluster of stars gave them an image and an identity. The stars threaded on that line were like events threaded on a narrative. Imagining the constellations did not of course change the stars, nor did it change the black emptiness that surrounds them. What it changed was the way people read the night sky.

  John Berger

  Stars, Night, Sky

  John Berger (2014). “And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief As Photos”, p.8, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Ceremony assists people to adjust to change (a marriage ceremony does this for families), to recognize achievement (a classic example is a graduation ceremony), to relate, to express love, and/or to establish a relationship. Ceremonies are the human way we have to signpost a deal such as a business merger, to trigger off a healthy grief process (such as in divorce or funeral ceremonies), to welcome another human being into the family. So Ceremonies have these excellent effects - they can be used further to announce intentions, to express loyalty and to reinforce a sense of identity.

  Dally Messenger

  Loyalty, Grief, Divorce

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• The image of God, then, involves gender identity and complementarity. God created gender in duality as male and female.

  Andrew Comiskey

  Males, Female, Gender

  Andrew Comiskey (2009). “Strength in Weakness: Healing Sexual and Relational Brokenness”, p.25, InterVarsity Press

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• Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity exists only for tactical reasons. The establishment of a Palestinian state is a new tool to continue the fight against Israel and for Arab unity.

  Zuheir Mohsen

  Fighting, Israel, Unity

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• A man's ethnic identity has more to do with a personal awareness than with geography.

  William Saroyan

  Men, Awareness, Geography

  "Inhale and Exhale". Book by William Saroyan, 1936.

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• It should not be presumed that these people (the Jews), who are so separated from us by their religion, have any right to make our laws. But why blame the Jews? It is we who lack all feeling for our own identity, all sense of honour.

  Richard Wagner

  Law, People, Feelings

  Diary entry for November 14, 1878. "Cosima Wagner's Diaries: An Abridgment". Book edited by Geoffrey Skelton, 1994.

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• The dictionary says my identity should be all about being separate or distinct, and yet it feels like it is so wrapped up in others.

  Mary E. Pearson

  Should, Feels, Dictionary

  Mary E. Pearson (2009). “The Adoration of Jenna Fox”, p.190, Macmillan

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• In contrast to the asexual chasteness of official communist art , Nazi art is both prurient and idealizing. A utopian aesthetics (physical perfection; identity as a biological given) implies an ideal eroticism: sexuality converted into the magnetism of leaders and the joy of followers. The fascist ideal is to transform sexual energy into a "spiritual" force, for the benefit of the community.

  Susan Sontag

  Spiritual, Art, Perfection

  Susan Sontag (1983). “A Susan Sontag reader”, Vintage

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• We don't exist unless there is someone who can see us existing, what we say has no meaning until someone can understand, while to be surrounded by friends is constantly to have our identity confirmed; their knowledge and care for us have the power to pull us from our numbness. In small comments, many of them teasing, they reveal they know our foibles and except them and so, in turn, accept that we have a place in the world.

  Alain de Botton

  Numbness, World, Care

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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• By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.

  Alain de Botton

  Self, Imagination, Prejudice

  "The Consolations of Philosophy". Book by Alain de Botton, 2000.

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• All I can tell you with certainty is that I, for one, have no self, and that I am unwilling or unable to perpetrate upon myself the joke of a self. What I have instead is a variety of impersonations I can do, and not only of myself - a troupe of players that I have internalised, a permanent company of actors that I can call upon when a self is required. I am a theater and nothing more than a theater.

  Philip Roth

  Player, Self, Actors

  "The Counterlife". Book by Philip Roth, 1986.

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• There can be no more thrilling idea of intimacy that connecting with someone through the agency of the written word. Here we meet, on the page, naked and unadorned: shorn of class, race, gender, sexual identity, age and nationality. The reader I seek is a tautology, for he/she is simply exactly the person who wants to read what I have written...

  Will Self

  Race, Class, Ideas

  "Will Self". Interview with Sarah Kinson, www.theguardian.com. May 9, 2007.

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• The prerequisite of contrapuntal art, more conspicuous in the work of Bach than in that of any other composer, is an ability to conceive a priori of melodic identities which when transposed, inverted, made retrograde, or transformed rhythmically will yet exhibit, in conjunction with the original subject matter, some entirely new but completely harmonious profile.

  Glenn Gould

  Art, Matter, Profile

  "Song: 'So You Want To Write A Fugue'". 1997.

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• Be less about protecting any type of identity affiliated to a country or even ethnic background. Be more about the fact that we're here for a short time and Heaven is going to be a rainbow of people, multiculture, every generation.

  Max Lucado

  Country, People, Rainbow

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The narrative that each person tells herself and others is a big part of how we construct our self-identities. It's one of the most important ways that we make sense of our past and present and understand our hopes for the future.

  Peg O'Connor

  Past, Self, Important

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• You can't run away from your identity. Even if I went to another band, I'd still be Lips from the band Anvil. I've spent my entire life trying to be that, that's what I am. There's nowhere to run.

  Steve "Lips" Kudlow

  Running, Trying, Band

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The fire of the diamond of true Identity is always there; it just needs the Master's crafting to reveal it.

  Kenneth G. Mills

  True Identity, Fire, Needs

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• What is your trouble? Mistaken identity.

  Wei Wu Wei

  Trouble, Mistaken, Mistaken Identity

  "Ask the Awakened: the Negative Way". Book by Wei Wu Wei, 1963.

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• Nobody is born a drug addict or a homosexual. Christians may be performing in these unacceptable ways, but that's not who they are. It's an identity issue.

  Tony Evans

  Christian, Issues, Drug

  Tony Evans (2009). “Free at Last: Experiencing True Freedom Through Your Identity in Christ”, p.28, Moody Publishers

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• Becoming an entrepreneur was the furthest thing from my mind. I actually had an identity crisis when I realized I had become one.

  Anne Taintor

  Entrepreneur, Mind, Becoming

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• Identity for me is something that has to be played with and explored, and not become complacent about or uninterested in.

  Mika

  Complacent, Uninterested

  "The Nowhere Boy: Mika Finds Confidence in Coming Out". Interview with Zack Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 18, 2013.

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• While America will always, I think, feel foreign to me, New York City is my home. This is where I can construct my own identity freely and reject labels imposed on me.

  Raquel Cepeda

  New York, Home, Thinking

  Raquel Cepeda (2014). “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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