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71,865. Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient. (Experience & Individual & Self & Malcolm X & I & Personality) Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
68,168. If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self. (Conquer & Self & I) Napoleon Hill
68,169. The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves. (Conquer & Self & I) Napoleon Bonaparte
2,712. The universe and I exist together. And all things and I are one. (Universe & I) Chuang-Tzu
3,489. Hey diddle diddle
The cat and the fiddle,
God’s up there,
The devil’s down there
And here am I.
Trapped.
In the middle. (Life’s Like That & Cat & God & Devil & I & Epigrams) esias, Life is a Steaming Pile of Donkey Doo-Doos c.1996
6,282. I cannot hide what I am. I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at no man’s jests; eat when I have stomach, and wait for no man’s leisure; sleep when I am drowsy, and tend to no man’s business; laugh when I am merry, and claw no man in his humour. (I & Individuality & Self) William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing I iii 13-18, Don John to Conrad
46,123. Presume not that I am the thing I was. (Shakespeare & I) William Shakespeare, Henry IV II, Globe Theatre, Sky Arts 2012
76,775. Who is it that can tell me who I am? William Shakespeare, The History of King Lear I iv 225, Lear
6.277. Oh what a rogue and peasant slave am I! (Self & I) William Shakespeare, Hamlet II ii 523, Hamlet
46,134. I am not as I am. (Shakespeare & I) William Shakespeare, Othello, Globe Theatre production, Sky Arts 2012
6,741. There once was a man who said though
It seems that I know that I know.
But what I’d like to see
Is the I that knows me
When I know that I know that I know. (Knowledge & I) Alan Watts
10,347. I wish they would take me as I am. (Artists: Van Gogh & I & Self) Vincent van Gogh
10,348. I’m such a nobody. (Artists: Van Gogh & I & Self) Vincent van Gogh
24,452. I am what I am. I am Q. (Star Trek: The Next Generation & I) Star Trek: The Next Generation s6e6: True Q, lady Q
76,768. I am not at all the sort of person you and I took me for. Jane Carlyle, 1801-1866
76,769. Me – who am as a nerve o’er which do creep
The else unfelt oppressions of this earth. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Julian and Maddalo, 1818
76,770. I am – yet what I am, none cares of knows;
My friends forsake me like a memory lost.
I am the self-consumer of my woes. John Clare, 1793-1864
76,771. The primary imagination I hold to be the living Power and prime Agent of all human Perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, Biographia Literaria
76,772. What is the world, O soldiers?
It is I:
I, this incessant show,
This northern sky;
Soldiers, this solitude
Through which we go
Is I. Walter de la Mare, Napoleon 1906
76,773. Freedom from the lust of the sense, absence of the thought of ‘I’, perception of the sorrows of birth, death, old age, disease, and suffering. Bhagavad Gita: Krishna’s Dialogue on the Soul 13:8
53,244. I doubt therefore I think; I think therefore I am. [Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum] (Existence & I & Self & Doubt & Think) Rene Descartes
76,777. Studious of elegance and ease,
Myself alone I seek to please. John Gay, Fables, 1727
,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul. W E Henley, ‘Invictus. In Memoriam RTHB’, 1888
76,779. What about me? Lolita 1997 starring Dominque Swain & Jeremy Irons & Frank Langella & Melanie Griffith & Suzanne Shepherd & Keith Reddin & Erin J Dean & Joan Glover & Pat Pierre Perkins & Ed Grady & Michael Goodwin et al, director Adrian Lyne, Humbert to Lolita
95,143. Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle. Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
96,137. This race and this country and this life produced me, he said. I shall express myself as I am. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
102,398. I am not as I was. Horace
119,335. Do you know how hard it is being me? (Gangs US: Los Angeles & I) Ray Donovan s4e8: The Texan, Conor to Abby
119,995. I’m Bill. I think. Well I used to be. The Party 2017 starring Patricia Clarkson & Bruno Ganz & Cherry Jones & Emily Mortimer & Cillian Murphy & Kristin Scott Thomas & Timothy Spall et al, director Sally Potter, Bill to Gottfried