“I always went my own road and on my own legs where I had a mind to go”

— Joseph Conrad , book Heart of Darkness

Source: Heart of Darkness

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Polish-British writer 1857–1924

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Fly Away

“I am alone here in my own mind.
There is no map
and there is no road.
It is one of a kind
just as yours is.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

“And my problem was that I always tried to go in everyone's way but my own.”

Ralph Ellison book Invisible Man

Source: Invisible Man

“He's always, always in my mind — not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself — but as my own being.”

Emily Brontë book Wuthering Heights

Catherine Earnshaw (Ch. IX).
Source: Wuthering Heights (1847)
Context: I can not express it; but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be an existence of yours beyond you. What were the use of creation if I were entirely contained here? My great miseries in this world have been Heathcliff's miseries, and I watched and felt each from the beginning; my great thought in living is himself. If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger. I should not seem a part of it. My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary. Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more than I am always a pleasure to myself - but as my own being; so, don't talk of our separation again - it is impracticable.

“Oh I don't mind going to weddings, just as long as it's not my own…”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

“I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living.”

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) English poet

Letter to Robert Bridges (18 October 1882)
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Context: I always knew in my heart Walt Whitman’s mind to be more like my own than any other man’s living. As he is a very great scoundrel this is not a pleasant confession.