999 Quotes About Individuality
- Author A.E. Chandler
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Marian exhaled. 'Because God made me a woman is no reason to be such a woman as men wish to make me.
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- Author George MacDonald
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I would rather be what God chose to make me than the most glorious creature that I could think of; for to have been thought about, born in God's thought, and then made by God, is the dearest, grandest and most precious thing in all thinking.
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- Author David Sedaris
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All of us take pride and pleasure in the fact that we are unique, but I'm afraid that when all is said and done the police are right: it all comes down to fingerprints.
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- Author Gustave Flaubert
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Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level
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- Author Arkady Strugatsky
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How can I give up stalking when I have a family to feed? Get a job? I don't want to work for you, your work makes me puke, do you understand? This is the way I figure it: if a man works with you, he is always working for one of you, he is a slave and nothing else. And I always wanted to be myself, on my own, so that I could spit at you all, at your boredom and despair.
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- Author Clarice Lispector
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I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.
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- Author Jacob Blumenfeld
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An individual does not have an identity except in its relation to a series of causes and effects which are determined by other individuals, which themselves have no identity except in their relation to a series of causes and effects, and so on ad infinitum...
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- Author Michel de Montaigne
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If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.
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- Author Ursula K. Le Guin
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IF NOTHING IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM YOU, WHAT IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT FROM YOU IS VERY DIFFERENT FROM YOU
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