His [(Rumpelstiltskin)] feeling that his name, which is his identity, must be kept secret, or else he'll be revealed to the world as the hunchbacked, shriveled, ridiculous creature he knows himself to be. And if that happens, he'll disappear.

Joan Gould

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The name sounds almost too perfect. And as I said, you look perfect, too. The only thing left... is to be perfect.

Jay Asher

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Johannes. Se on pyhimysten ja mullivasikoitten nimi. Viattomien ja autuaitten, Johannes Kastajan nimi.

Katja Kettu

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In the future, he will try to say her name enough, but he never can.

Ann Patchett

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With no name attached to it, the place somehow declared itself nowhere and everywhere at the same time

Adam P. Knave

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Hobbits always so polite, yes! O nice hobbits! Smeagol brings them up secret ways that nobody else could find. Tired he is, thirsty he is, yes thirsty; and he guides them and he searches for paths, and they saw sneak, sneak. Very nice friends, O yes my precious, very nice."
Sam felt a little remorseful, but not yet trustful.
"Sorry," he said. "I'm sorry, but you startled me out of my sleep. And I shouldn't have been sleeping, and that made me sharp. But Mr. Frodo, he's that tired, I asked him to have a wink; and well, that's how it is. Sorry. But where HAVE you been to?"
"Sneaking," said Gollum, and the green glint did not leave his eyes.

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"Hullo, Smeagol!" Frodo said. "Found any food? Have you had any rest?"
"No food, no rest, nothing for Smeagol," said Gollum. "He's a sneak."
"Don't take names to yourself, Smeagol," Frodo said. "It's unwise, whether they are true or false."
"Smeagol has to take what's given to him," answered Gollum. "He was given that name by kind Master Samwise, the hobbit that knows so much.

J.R.R. Tolkien

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It is good practice to never fault someone for their birth name, being that it is always of far greater importance how men speak of you, than the name by which you are addressed.

Steven J. Carroll

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Je n'arrive plus à ressentir. J'ai l'impression de transporter de la lumière dans mes veines. Tout ce qui m'arrive a un prénom... Emma, elle s'appelle Emma.

Jul Maroh

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I'm Fred Mathews

Carolyn Keene

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How many times in her thirty years had she heard the same remarks, the same feeble jokes about her name?

Haruki Murakami

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