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“our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.” Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
“Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” Albert Einstein, The world as I see it
“Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality.” Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
“His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
“He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography
“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.” Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man under Socialism
“To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth, must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.” Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning . . . but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
“Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their own song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our...” Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.” Jack London, Martin Eden
“he was a man who marched through life to the rhythms of some drum I would never hear.” Hunter S. Thompson, Hell's Angels
“never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along—the same person that I am today.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game
“It's better to always wear the same thing and know that people are liking you for the real you and not the you your clothes make.” Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
“It doesn't matter what you do . . . so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
“As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.” Frank Zappa, The Real Frank Zappa Book
“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.” Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
“I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography
“Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?” Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.” J. D. Salinger, Franny and Zooey
“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden
“Each person feels the pain in his own way, each has his own scars.” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.” J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
“You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.” John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?” Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
“Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom
“I don't like trick horses. It takes all the—dignity out of a horse to make him do tricks. Why, a trick horse is kind of like an actor—no dignity, no character of his own.” John Steinbeck, The Red Pony
“Grunts and nods don't add up to poetry. But maybe writing poetry brings out some hidden talent in the guy. ” Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“People aren't born good or bad. Maybe they're born with tendencies either way, but it's the way you live your life that matters.” Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
“I wouldn't change you for the world. You're sweet the way you are. The things that'll make you fail I'll love always—the living in the past, the lazy days and nights you have, and all your carelessness and generosity.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers
“he wondered at what age 'nice' women began to speak for themselves.” Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
“Anymore, no one’s mind is their own.” Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
“It’s her general air of being some one in particular that strikes me.” Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
“maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.” John Green, Paper Towns
“For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.” Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game

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