“Basil Hallward is what I think I am: Lord Henry what the world thinks me: Dorian what I would like to be—in other ages, perhaps.”
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Oscar Wilde812
Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
“I do not live for what the world thinks of me, but for what I think of myself.”
Jack London (1876–1916) American author, journalist, and social activist
Letter to Charles Warren Stoddard (21 August 1903)
George Oppen (1908–1984) American poet
Who could have the conceit, the self-confidence to believe that that is what we should do throughout all the rest of human history?
Letter to Charles Humboldt (mid-1962), p. 64
The Selected Letters of George Oppen (1990)
Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Variant: If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
Nikita Gokhale (1990) Indian Actress, Indian Model
"‘6 bold statements of Nikita Gokhale’" http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/marathi/movies/6-bold-statements-of-Nikita-Gokhale/6-bold-statements-of-Nikita-Gokhale/photostory/45617534.cms.TimesOfIndia.com. December 23, 2014.
“My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not;
I think thy answers make me what I am.”
George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish journalist, novelist
Source: The Diary of an Old Soul & the White Page Poems
Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman
1880s, The Future of the Colored Race (1886)
Context: Of course this result will not be reached by any hurried or forced processes. It will not arise out of any theory of the wisdom of such blending of the two races. If it comes at all, it will come without shock or noise or violence of any kind, and only in the fullness of time, and it will be so adjusted to surrounding conditions as hardly to be observed. I would not be understood as advocating intermarriage between the two races. I am not a propagandist, but a prophet. I do not say that what I say should come to pass, but what I think is likely to come to pass, and what is inevitable. While I would not be understood as advocating the desirability of such a result, I would not be understood as deprecating it.
“And yet I am what they think I am.”
Ralph Ellison book Invisible Man
Source: Invisible Man (1952), Chapter 17.
Kristin Hannah book The Nightingale
Variant: He loves a version of me that is incomplete. I always thought it was what I wanted: to be loved and admired. Now I think perhaps I'd like to be known.
Source: The Nightingale