Quotes About Individuality

Réduits a nous-mêmes, nous nous réduisons à rien.

Our reasons for reading what we do are as eccentric as our reasons for living as we do.

Non vi è peggior crimine del volersi sostituire alla coscienza altrui.

Era uno di quei momenti in cui, malgrado i nostri tormenti interiori, siamo segretamente contenti di non essere l'altro. Così si sferruzzano i lutti. Piccoli istanti di gioia tra gli assalti della disperazione, un diritto e un rovescio, fino alla felicità ritrovata di essere se stessi… Sì, deve essere questa, dopo tutto, la felicità: la soddisfazione di non essere l'altro.

Quando la vita è quello che è, il romanzo ha il dovere di essere quello che vuole.

Ma è così la vita: se incontri un essere umano nella folla, seguilo... seguilo.

But for now they're all reading together, under the influence of that magic that turns a class into a single reading being, while keeping its thirty personalities distinct.

Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes

Les droits imprescriptibles du lecteur : 1. Le droit de ne pas lire. 2. Le droit de sauter des pages. 3. Le droit de ne pas finir un livre. 4. Le droit de relire. 5. Le droit de lire n'importe quoi. 6. Le droit au bovarysme (maladie textuellement transmissible). 7. Le droit de lire n'importe où. 8. Le droit de grappiller. 9. Le droit de lire à haute voix. 10. Le droit de nous taire.

You are not going to find the meaning of life hidden under a rock written by someone else. You'll find it by giving meaning to life from inside yourself

My house is me and I am it and it looks like all my dreams". - the Big Orange Splot

There is no one right way to live.

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, fuck that, I'm Harry Potter.

If I was left to my own devices, you would see about ten T-shirts in rotation with maybe a few nice pairs of jeans - but I also like to look good. I like feeling really well put together, I just don't have the aptitude and the knowledge to do that.

I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me.

Religion leaves no room for human complexity.

No two people have exactly the same view of the world. Therefore, the most important science of all is the science of perception and consciousness, which holds the key to all other sciences and which has always been of paramount importance in the traditions of the Orient.

At its rawest, fashion is material sewn together in a sequential method. But it's so much more. Fashion creates a mood, captures a moment. It evokes something that you never knew was inside you. Fashion is one of the most underrated stimulants one can encounter.

How do you know when it's me?" "Your footsteps are apologetic?" "What does that mean?" She turned, smiling wiping her hands on her long, black skirt. "It doesn't mean anything," she said. "Everybody else here just does what they want to do and doesn't think twice about it. But you're never sure.

Ree sat chilled inside her squat tent. To occupy her mind, she decided to name all the Miltons: Thump, Blond, Catfish, Spider, Whoop, Rooster, Scrap… Lefty, Dog, Punch, Pinkeye, Momsy… Cotton, Hog-jaw, Ten Penny, Peashot…

Two people in a relationship are like two stars who rotate around each other, attracted by each other's energy, but not dependent on each other.

I don't resemble my mom at all. Mom made beauty seem like a magic trick I'd never learn. I think there was a part of me that was trying, in those moments, to know her deeply, deep enough so that I could one day bring to light any small part of me that was hers. —

I was surrounded by whiteness and hadn't yet learned that I was beautiful in a different way.

Warwick took on a sheen of impermanence. I could go anywhere, be anyone. I didn't want to be like my mom, to give my life over to men. I couldn't conceive of a life that revolved around or even involved men.