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By practice and conviction formed,
With ancient stubbornness ingrained,
Although her body clung and swarmed,
My own identity remained.
(Yvor Winters (1900-1968), U.S. poet. Sir Gawaine and the Green Knight (l. 21-24). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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Americans may have no identity, but they do have wonderful teeth.
(Jean Baudrillard (b. 1929), French semiologist. "Astral America," America (1986, trans. 1988).)
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All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman.
(Max Frisch (1911-1991), Swiss author, critic. Originally published as Montauk, Suhrkamp (1975). Montauk, pp. 95-96, trans. by Geoffrey Skelton, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (1976).
Frisch's autobiographical musings about aging.)
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The firmest friendship is based on an identity of likes and dislikes.
(Gaius Sallustius Crispus (c. 86-35/34 B.C.), Roman historian. Catilina, XX.)
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When I quit working, I lost all sense of identity in about fifteen minutes.
(Paige Rense (b. 1929), U.S. author and editor. As quoted in the New York Times, p. 37 (February 21, 1994).
The writer and Architectural Digest editor was recalling her brief period of being a housewife.)
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Science is nothing but the finding of analogy, identity, in the most remote parts.
(Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. Oration, August 31, 1837, delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Cambridge, Massachusetts. "The American Scholar," repr. In Emerson: Essays and Lectures, ed. Joel Porte (1983).)
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A faculty for idleness implies a catholic appetite and a strong sense of personal identity.
(Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish novelist, essayist, poet. "An Apology for Idlers," Virginibus Puerisque (1881).)
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An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.
(James Baldwin (1924-1987), U.S. author. "No Name in the Street," The Price Of The Ticket (1972, repr. 1985).)
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