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Literary notes about Personality (AI summary)

In literature, "personality" is portrayed as a multifaceted quality that embodies the inner essence of individuals while also reflecting their social and even metaphysical dimensions. Writers sometimes depict it as a disturbing, almost volatile force intrinsic to the human condition ([1]), while at the same time exploring its parallels with divine traits and the creative spirit ([2], [3]). In sociological and philosophical discourse, it is treated as both an observable collection of objective characteristics and as the unique, often ineffable mark that defines one’s individuality ([4]). Thus, across genres, personality becomes a bridge between the intimate inner life and its broader cultural manifestations.
  1. I would have said that personality would have been a disturbing element.
    — from Intentions by Oscar Wilde
  2. Like the personality of God, the personality of man in a future state was not inseparably bound up with the reality of his existence.
    — from Phaedo by Plato
  3. The first is the appearance of a new medium for art, and the second is the appearance of a new personality for art also.
    — from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
  4. More than that, only these objective expressions of personality are accessible to external observation and they alone have objective value.
    — from Introduction to the Science of Sociology by E. W. Burgess and Robert Ezra Park

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