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If you possess enough courage to speak out what you are, you will find you are not alone.

The crowd, in fact, is composed of individuals; it must therefore be in every man's power to become ...

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We define our identity always in dialogue with, sometimes in struggle against, the things our signif...

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We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity,...

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[M]y discovering my own identity doesn't mean that I work it out in isolation, but that I negotiate ...

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To know who I am is a species of knowing where I stand. My identity is defined by the commitments an...

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Charles Taylor (philosopher)Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity

Sitting there on the heather, on our planetary grain, I shrank from the abysses that opened up on ev...

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