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“Then you are a poet?' she asked, fingering the flyer in her pocket. 'No not at all,' he waved his hand. 'I am merely a character in a poem.”

Book:Tropic of Orange

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Tropic of Orange

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Karen Tei Yamashita

Karen Tei Yamashita is an American writer known for her unique identity and life experiences. Born on January 8, 1951, she is of Japanese descent and her works often focus on issues of race, gender, and identity. more

“[…] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments of pain, of fear, of danger. Everything is retrievable, every shock, every hurt. But perhaps it becomes a duty to abandon the stock of time that one carries within oneself, to discard it in favour of the present, so that one’s embrace may be turned outwards to the world in which one has made one’s home.”

Self Past Present

Book:Latecomers

Source: Latecomers

“Fate, fortune, chance: all snares of life. You want to be, eh? There’s this catch: in abstract, you cannot just be. The being must be trapped in a form, and for some time it has to stay in it, here or there, this way or that. And everything, as long as it lasts, bears the penalty of its form, the penalty of being this way and no longer being able to be otherwise.”

Self Restriction Limitations

Book:One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

Source: One, No One, and One Hundred Thousand

“She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved.”

“See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his own opinion of himself, a fame won by his own deeds.”

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Book:Walden or, Life in the Woods

Source: Walden or, Life in the Woods

“The body is innocent. Deeply, beautifully, fundamentally innocent.”

Self Body Beauty Self Love Innocence Self Respect Self Care Body Image

Author:Rachel Hartman

“Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow called Bolton, I never finished it, I never finished any of them, I never finished anything, everything always went on for ever. (Pause.)”

Self Play Stories Embers Beckett

Book:Embers

Source: Embers

“I killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I don’t need any more information about myself. I get more than enough of that just by being me.”

Self News Google

Author:Lev Grossman

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