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The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when ...

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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.

Character is that which can do without success.

Good breeding a union of kindness and independence.

From a personality point of view, you develop judgment, but from the sou's point of view, you develo...

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Ram DassPolishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart

Who am I? Not the body, because it is decaying; not the mind, because the brain will decay with the ...

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There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my pers...

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Here, by the grace of God and an inside straight, we have a personality untouched by the psychotic t...

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Robert A. HeinleinStranger in a Strange Land

They are proud in humility proud that they are not proud.

The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. The world is full of people with ...

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The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. The world is full of people with ...

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The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. The world is full of people with ...

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The most effective attitude to adopt is one of supreme acceptance. The world is full of people with ...

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The bones and flesh and legal statistics are the garments worn by the personality, not the other way...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

I wish people weren't so set on being themselves, when that means being a bastard.

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you If you can tru...

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Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.

We all do things in a certain individual way, according to our temperaments. Every human act — no ma...

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Painting is an infinitely minute part of my personality.

And on the threshold of being no more I succeed in being another.

And I seemed to see myself ageing as swiftly as a day-fly. But the idea of ageing was not exactly th...

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A good fragrance should have a certain personality that makes people identify the scent with you.

But, in the Trump aftermath, I've measured the costsAnd benefits of loving those who don't loveStran...

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Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have , so to speak , pawned a part of their narcissism.

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other mode...

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Sigmund FreudSexuality and the Psychology of Love

To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to conv...

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He was welcome everywhere he went, and was well-aware of his inability to tolerate solitude. He felt...

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Stefan ZweigThe Burning Secret and other stories

Indeed, man has two different beings inside him. What devil thought of that malicious touch?

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StendhalThe Red and the Black

For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would...

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A melancholy air can never be the right thing; what you want is a bored air. If you are melancholy, ...

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StendhalThe Red and the Black

Julien felt himself to be strong and resolute like a man who sees clearly into his own heart.

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StendhalThe Red and the Black

It was easier to be brave when you were someone else.

Lord Ronald said nothing he flung himself from the room flung himself upon his horse and rode madl...

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Why do you work so hard to make yourself disliked? I should think you'd find it happens enough on it...

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I'm told I'm very charming when people do what I want.

Recovered. Had my personality crossed over that border, whatever and wherever it was, to resume life...

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At once, it’s clear I cannot gush. We try me playing cocky, but I just don’t have the arrogance. App...

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Life is, if anything, the art of combination. Of discrimination. Of freely picking one's own persona...

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Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...

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Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of pe...

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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as function...

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I had been thinking a lot about how the media has created this complex, fictionalized cartoon versio...

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Well, the terrible fact is that though we are all more or less thinking of something or other all th...

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The different people are not like other people, but being different is nothing to be ashamed of. Bec...

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Where there is personality, there is discord.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.

Though when at home their countenances varied with the seasons, their market faces all the year roun...

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The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.

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Thornton WilderThe Bridge of San Luis Rey

I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust...

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The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete over...

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Truman CapoteBreakfast at Tiffany's

The strength of Shevek's personality, unchecked by any self-consciousness or consideration of self-d...

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When people see your personality come out, they feel so good, like they actually know who you are.

I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

Some folks hesitate to seize additional strength because they think it wrong or dangerous to be a po...

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(...) a man encased in ice, his eyes hard and his voice like a frosty exhale.

For a person's nature,like a rock,can be drilled into by drops of water.For a person's nature,like a...

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People who are overwhelmed with troubles never do look back.They know only too well that misfortune ...

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Victor HugoLes Misérables

For if there are (at a venture) seventy-six different times all ticking in the mind at once, how man...

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. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

Everything he said should be followed by a big sic

The nineteenth was the first century of human sympathy, -- the age when half wonderingly we began to...

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I do not like these painted faces that look all alike; and I think women are foolish to dull their e...

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W. Somerset MaughamCollected Short Stories: Volume 1

A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to...

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It is native personality and that alone that endows a man to stand before presidents or generals ...

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We see but one aspect of our neighbor, as we see but one side of the moon; in either case there is a...

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Years later, on a Steve Jobs discussion board on the website Gawker, the following tale appeared fro...

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Jobs had always been an extremely opinionated eater, with a tendency to instantly judge any food as ...

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It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most peopl...

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Style personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-fac...

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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your co...

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Every man in the world is better than some one else. And not as good as some one else.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people your character will take care of itself.

Keisha Blake, whose celebrated will and focus did not leave her much room for angst, watched her fri...

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The perfection of yoga, therefore, does not terminate in voidness or impersonalism; on the contrary,...

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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

The things she said seemed to have very little relation to the last thing she had said a minute befo...

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A little difficult to know where you were with Elinor. She didn't reveal much of what she thought an...

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There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves ...

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Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no p...

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I was one of those weird kids who didn't really speak or smile. I remember my teachers would call ho...

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Waiting in the reception area, she had flicked through a news magazine that had been lying on the ta...

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There were some people, it seemed, who were incapable of being pleasant about anything. Of course, t...

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Alexander McCall SmithThe Good Husband of Zebra Drive

Nations, as well as men, almost always betray the most prominent features of their future destiny in...

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Some periods of our growth are so confusing that we don’t even recognize that growth is happening. W...

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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the wor...

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I had already made a decision early on that I would be a plain girl with lots of personality, and ac...

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She lacks the core of sureness, she craves admiration insatiably. She lives on reflections of hersel...

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Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of oursel...

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André GideStrait is the Gate and The Vatican Cellars

I am a deeply superficial person.

I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want ...

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He lost the great big outward thing, the good- looking package, and the real parts endured. They shi...

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Anne LamottPlan B: Further Thoughts on Faith

I was at a loss suddenly; but conscious all the while of how Armand listened; that he listened in th...

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Anne RiceInterview with the Vampire

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellenc...

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In Victorian times the purpose of life was to develop a personality once and for all and then stand ...

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