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Eragon, on discovering his true name
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Lloyd Alexander The Chronicles of Prydain
Source: The Chronicles of Prydain (1964–1968), Book IV: Taran Wanderer (1967), Chapter 21
Context: “I saw myself,” Taran answered. “In the time I watched, I saw strength – and frailty. Pride and vanity, courage and fear. Of wisdom, a little. Of folly, much. Of intentions, many good ones; but many more left undone. In this, alas, I saw myself a man like any other.
“But this, too, I saw,” he went on. “Alike as men may seem, each is different as flakes of snow, no two the same. You told me you had no need to seek the Mirror, knowing you were Annlaw Clay-Shaper. Now I know who I am: myself and none other. I am Taran.”
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Dejan Stojanovic book Circling: 1978-1987
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“I know who and what I am. I am The Executioner, and I don't date Vampires. I kill them.”
Laurell K. Hamilton (1963) Novelist
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“Looking for who I am is who I am.”
Tom Spanbauer The Man Who Fell in Love with the Moon
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