51 Quotes About Otherness
- Author Vincent Van Gogh
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So what do you want? Does what happens inside show on the outside? There is such a great fire in one’s soul, and yet nobody ever comes to warm themselves there, and passersby see nothing but a little smoke coming from the top of the chimney, and go on their way.
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- Author Susanna Clarke
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I was always amazed at Cambridge how quickly people appeared to take offence at everything I said, but now I see plainly that it was not my words they hated - it was this fairy face. The dark alchemy of this face turns all my gentle human emotions into fierce fairy vices. Inside I am all despair, but this face shows only fairy scorn. My remorse becomes fairy fury and my pensiveness is turned to fairy cunning.
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- Author Erik Pevernagie
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When we feel fractured, redundant and nonessential, only bouncing back from lowliness may brighten up the story of our life. In this endeavor, “otherness” might lend a helping hand in making the road less parching. (“He did not know that she knew”)
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- Author Jack London
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Too many thousands of opened books yawned between them and him. He had exiled himself.
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- Author Suzy Kassem
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To become a true global citizen, one must abandon all notions of otherness and instead embrace togetherness.
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- Author Guillermo del Toro
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Monsters are the patron saints of otherness.
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- Author Erik Pevernagie
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If we wrestle with traumas that do not want to give way and our inner little Red Riding Hood cannot get rid of the wolf's threatening giggles, we must not be afraid of opening ourselves to otherness that can trigger a salutary 'orienting reflex' propelling us into a new thinking pattern. ("Into a new life")
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- Author Anna Kavan
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The men's tanned faces, the faces of the women, bright with cosmetics, all suddenly appeared similar, as though wearing identical masks; hard, smiling, decorative, devoid of feeling. Not one of the seemed capable of expressing affection or pity or any of the softer emotions. They frightened her, these gay, hard, animated, worldly masks; she would always be a stranger among them, lost, ill-at-ease, out of place.
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- Author Gilles Deleuze
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The shadow escapes from the body like an animal we had been sheltering.
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