155 quotes found
“I'm so well-rounded I'm almost spherical.”
“Most personalities have been obliged to be rebels. Half their strength has been wasted in friction.”
“Everything he said should be followed by a big sic”
“Fritz was melancholic by nature, and could tolerate his own gloom. I do not think this is so with you, who are sanguine and impatient. In your case, remorse and despondency could be crippling.”
“Everyone has something of the spiti that animates the artist”
“In her world, the law was upside down. People had to break the law to live. The prohibition on drug-dealing, a serious crime in most countries, is not viewed in the same way as protective of socie...”
“I wanted to belong, like everyone else around me did, but there was no country I could say was mine. I had no one to tell me that many other people in the world have a fragmented identity; that it ...”
“Breaking the personality is like cutting the tree in its trunk, it needs years to be grown as it was.”
“Chronically awkward people can feel like everyone else received a secret instruction manual at birth titled "How to be Socially Competent." For the awkward person, this dreamy manual would provide ...”
“I've always been very confident in my immaturity.”
“...larger than life...I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?”
“The strength of Shevek's personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-defense, was formidable.”
“I just hope I don't become so blissful I become boring. I think I'll always be neurotic enough to do something weird.”
“I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in the way that we dream of others listening, his face seeming to reflect on every thing said. He did ...”
“Im torn between the desire to create and the desire to destroy.”
“The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way around.”
“Everybody has multiple personalitiesat least three. Were one person at work, another person in private, and a third person when we appear in polite society.”
“Every human personality is the product of an innate drive to create something unique from ones raw individual experience.”
“Being selfless isn't bad. It is a very rare quality.”
“If you want to build your personality don't do extraordinarily just act like a Human being.”
