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“How many yous have you been?
How many,
Lined up inside,
Each killing the last?”
― Kate Tempest, Hold Your Own

“Be sure that whatever you are is you.”
― Theodore Roethke

“Whatever they may think and say about their "egoism", the great majority nonetheless do nothing for their ego their whole life long: what they do is done for the phantom of their ego which has formed itself in the heads of those around them and has been communicated to them.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality

“It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

“It's good when a man deceives your expectations, when he doesn't correspond to the preconceived notion of him. To belong to a type is the end of a man, his condemnation. If he doesn't fall into any category, if he's not representative, half of what's demanded of him is there. He's free of himself, he has achieved a grain of immortality.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“Yo quiero alguien del cual pueda aprender. Alguien con defectos, una persona no perfecta pero perfectible. Lo difícil es encontrar a esa persona adecuada y ser adecuado para esa persona.”
― David Elías Cotos Espinoza, El amor es como un pan con mantequilla

“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book or his picture the real man delivers himself defenceless. No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind. No one can produce the most casual work without disclosing the innermost secrets of his soul.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“When my turn on the program comes, I am not nervous at all—because all this is happening out of time, out of space. I am, for a moment, a figure of my own fantasy, and I play my appointed role as if I were in the movies.”
― Eva Hoffman, Lost in Translation: A Life in a New Language

“We seldom look up to the person; we usually look up to their persona.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“How did you become this way?"
"Why is anybody the way they are? That's kind of hard to answer.”
― E.L. James, Grey

“He hasn’t really seen you, not as you want to be seen, but he’s starting to, a little.”
― Colleen Chen, Dysmorphic Kingdom

“Levade had told her one day that there was no such thing as a coherent personality. When you are forty you have no cell in your body that you had at eighteen. It was the same, he said, with your character. Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you become an entirely different being every decade or so, sloughing off the old persona, renewing and moving on. You are not who you were, he told her, nor who you will be.”
― Sebastian Faulks

“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“All year long Sylvia had been trying to overthrow her guileless, college girl image. She knew "cottons with big full skirts and university personalities" would have looked hopelessly naive in New York. Sylvia wanted to be hard and urban.”
― Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953

“Isabelle and Amory were distinctly not innocent, nor were they particularly brazen. Moreover, amateur standing had very little value in the game they were playing, a game that would presumably be her principal study for years to come. She had begun as he had, with good looks and an excitable temperament, and the rest was the result of accessible popular novels and dressing-room conversation culled from a slightly older set. Isabelle had walked with an artificial gait at nine and a half, and when her eyes, wide and starry, proclaimed the ingenue most. Amory was proportionately less deceived. He waited for the mask to drop off, but at the same time he did not question her right to wear it. She, on her part, was not impressed by his studied air of blasé sophistication. She had lived in a larger city and had slightly an advantage in range. But she accepted his pose--it was one of the dozen little conventions of this kind of affair. He was aware that he was getting this particular favor now because she had been coached; he knew that he stood for merely the best game in sight, and that he would have to improve his opportunity before he lost his advantage. So they proceeded with an infinite guile that would have horrified her parents.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“excusing himself for this taint of industry on the ground that the one advantage of having coal was that it enabled a gentleman to afford the decency of burning wood on his own hearth.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

“Uno se siente feliz cuando ves feliz a la persona que amas.”
― David Elías Cotos Espinoza

“En el amor no está escrito yo voy amar a tal persona y no a la otra. Muchas veces en la vida ocurre lo contrario, terminas en una °ù±ð±ô²¹³¦¾±Ã³²Ô de amor con la persona que menos pensabas.”
― David Elías Cotos Espinoza

“People always switched on turn me off.”
― Brian Spellman

“... al hacer el amor se siente mucho, por lo mismo queda en tu sangre, en tu piel... por siempre. Lo increíble es cuando lo practicas con la misma persona varias veces, es ¡wow!”
― David Cotos, El hombre que te amaba a ti

“Las ³¾Ã¡²õ³¦²¹°ù²¹²õ nos revelan, los role nos matan.”
― Michel Schneider, Marilyn, dernières séances

“Comienza con la admiración ante una persona, lo sigue el entusiasmo y culmina con la pasión que nos lleva a la dicha o al desastre. El amor es una prueba que a todos, a los felices y a los desgraciados, nos enoblece.”
― Octavio Paz, The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism

“I insist on caprice as a necessary countermeasure to slavery. Otherwise, my own dictatorial mind must take -- unknown to me -- its instructions from a mastermind.”
― Norman Lock, The Boy in His Winter: An American Novel

“The outfit, tight in places,
and loose in some, says as much
in the buttons as it does in cuffs.”
― Kristen Henderson, Of My Maiden Smoking

“Llega un momento en (la vida) que dejas tu romanticismo, tu idealismo para hacerte más dura como persona.”
― David Elías Cotos Espinoza, El secreto del amor está en el limón

“El niño que cantaba flamenco no tiene cara de persona, tiene cara de animal doméstico, de sucia bestia, de pervertida bestia de corral.”
― Camilo José Cela, La colmena

“It is so easy to practice a creditable degree of so seeming virtue, and so difficult to purify and direct the affections of the heart, that I feel myself in continual danger of appearing better than I am; and I verily believe it is possible to make one’s whole life a display of splendid virtue and agreeable qualities, without ever setting foot towards the narrow path, or even one’s face towards the strait gate.â€� â€� Hannah More”
― Karen Swallow Prior, Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist

“Se ama a una persona, no a una abstración...
Para Freud las pasiones son juegos de reflejos; creemos amar a X, a su cuerpo y a su alma, pero en realidad amamos a la imagen de Y en X.”
― Octavio Paz, The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism

“Nada amenaza tanto a un sistema corrupto como una mente libre.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“You think you must fit the role others have laid out for you. That is the lie you need to conquer.”
― Elizabeth Carlton, The Royal Rogue