“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
Michel de Montaigne
more infosource: “Of the Education of Children,” in The Works of Michael de Montaigne (Philadelphia, PA: J. W. Moore, 1849), 86.
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category: communication, expression, quotation
medium: essay
“The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people’s faces, because that’s the only thing that you can see, unless you carry a mirror about.”
Gil Scott-Heron
more infosource: “New York is Killing Me,” by Alex Wilkinson, The New Yorker, August 9, 2010, 26–32.
category: expression, identity, mirror, musician, self
medium: magazine profile
“Therapy, you might say, became a kind of release valve for my life; it gave me a place to say the things I could say nowhere else, express the feelings that would be laughed at or frowned upon in the outside world — and in so doing helped to alleviate the insistent pressure of my darker thoughts.”
Daphne Merkin
more infosource: “My Life in Therapy,” The New York Times, August 4, 2010.
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category: emotion, expression, psychology, shrink, therapy, thought
medium: magazine article
expression