Quotes About Individuality

Y denota estrechez de miras por parte de sus semejantes más privilegiados el decir que deberían limitarse a hacer postres y hacer calcetines, a tocar el piano y bordar bolsos. Es necio condenarlas o burlarse de ellas cuando tratan de hacer algo más o aprender más cosas de las que la costumbre ha declarado necesarias para su sexo.

We do not know our own souls, let alone the souls of others. Human beings do not go hand in hand the whole stretch of the way. There is a virgin forest in each; a snowfield where even the print of birds' feet is unknown. Here we go alone, and like it better so. Always to have sympathy, always to be accompanied, always to be understood would be intolerable

Non aveva mai capito che senso avesse fare a pezzi le persone, come faceva Clarissa Dalloway - farle a pezzi e poi rimetterle assieme.

Até os homens e as mulheres parecem ter encolhido, tornaram-se numerosos e diminutos ao invés de únicos e substanciais.

Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others.

You're not going to sniff my ass, are you? Like a dog?

Are you sure you don't have a crazy hairy grandmother in your family?

Man is free only when he is doing what the deepest self likes, and knowing what the deepest self likes, ah! that takes some diving.

Wharton thought no one could have freedom, but James knew no one wanted freedom.

And yet I adore him. I think he's quite crazy, and with no place or occupation in life, and far from happy, and philosophically irresponsible – and there is absolutely nobody like him.

Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.

I have no desires, save the desire to express myself in defiance of all the world's muteness.

I do not know if it has ever been noted before that one of the main characteristics of life is discreteness. Unless a film of flesh envelopes us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion. It may be wonderful to mix with the landscape, but to do so is the end of the tender ego.

Be true to your Dick.

There are teachers and students with square minds who are by nature meant to undergo the fascination of catagories. For them, 'schools' and 'movements' are everything; by painting a group symbol on the brow of mediocrity, they condone their own incomprehension of true genius.

There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity.

that is his head, containing a brain of a different brand than that of the synthetic jellies preserved in the skulls around him

Unless a film of flesh envelops us, we die. Man exists only insofar as he is separated from his surroundings. The cranium is a space-traveler's helmet. Stay inside or you perish. Death is divestment, death is communion.

The only real number is one, the rest are mere repetition

As far back as I can remember myself—and I remember myself with lawless lucidity, I have been my own accomplice, who knows too much, and therefore is dangerous.

Resemblances are the shadows of differences. Different people see different similarities and similar differences.

Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the anonymous roller that pressed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap.

and in the end the logical thing would be to give up and I would give up if I were laboring for a reader today, but as there is in the world not a single human who can speak my language; or, more simply, not a single human who can speak; or, even more simply, not a single human; I must think only of myself, of that force which urges me to express myself. I repeat: there is something I know, there is something I know, there is something...

Era Lo, sencillamente Lo, por la mañana, un metro cuarenta y ocho de estatura con pies descalzos. Era Lola con pantalones. Era Dolly en la escuela. Era Dolores cuando firmaba. Pero en mis brazos era siempre Lolita.