Sam Sedaei says that identity is like an invisible man, and for him as an Iranian American, a coherent identity can be even more difficult to see.

VOA: standard.2010.06.15

What better suggestion is there for what we could point to as the metaphysical glue, ? the key to personal identity?

还有什么更好的东西,我们可以用来,作为形而上粘质，作为人格同一性的关键？

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And yet for all that dualists could consistently say, still same soul as not the key to personal identity, same personality is the key to personal identity.

所有的二元论者都可以坚持认为,同样的灵魂并非,人格同一性的关键，同样的人格,才是人格同一性的关键。

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I mentioned earlier that it's Virginia Woolf who's largely responsible for our sense of Milton's identity as an oppressive patriarchal literary voice, but Virginia Woolf, too, had inherited these contradictory ways of thinking about Milton and about Milton's power.

我先前提到过，我们之所以会,把弥尔顿看作是男权主义在文学领域的发言人,在很大程度上是由于佛吉尼亚·伍尔夫，但佛吉尼亚也继承了这互相矛盾的,思考弥尔顿及其力量的方式。

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