Identity Quotes

"Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity" "The city does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand" "We inhabit a language rather than a country" "Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters,' without immediately turning the monsters into pets" "Every other is completely other" "I am not sure that I exist actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited" "Time is the substance I am made of Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire" "We have confused the real and the extraordinary to the point where we no longer know which is which" "Inside us there is something that has no name, that something is what we are" "Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror But you are eternity and you are the mirror" "I too am America" "Through others we become ourselves" "The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning" "I am no doubt not the only one who writes in order to have no face" "We are all complicated human beings, and we must deal with various sides of our character"