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“Now, you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.” Neil Gaiman, Coraline
“Identity isn’t a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.” JAY-Z, Decoded
“Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“Close your mouth, block off your senses, blunt your sharpness, untie your knots, soften your glare, settle your dust. This is the primal identity.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“there were times when I forgot not only who I was, but that I was, forgot to be.” Samuel Beckett, Molloy
“Who is it that can tell me who I am?” William Shakespeare, King Lear
“One way to remember who you are is to remember who your heroes are.” Steve Jobs
“It's like everyone tells a story about themselves inside their own head. Always. All the time. That story makes you what you are. We build ourselves out of that story.” Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
“I am not an angel . . . and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself.” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are some one else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” Oscar Wilde, De Profundis
“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.” Bob Dylan, Chronicles, Volume One
“I hate how I don't feel real enough unless people are watching.” Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
“Maybe that's who you are, what you remember.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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