Quotes About Individuality

Yet the captain inhabited another space and it was a space of his own election and outside the common world of men.

Life. What can you say? It's not for everybody.

You have no right to represent people this way, he said. A man is all men. You have no right to your wretchednes.

I gave up apologizing for myself a long time ago. What should I say? That I'm sorry to be that which I am?

It may even be that everybody starts out fairly unique only most people get over it.

You have no right to represent people this way, he said. A man is all men. You have no right to your wretchedness.

Each man is the bard of his own existence. This is how he is joined to the world.

God made this world, but he didn't make it to suit everybody did he.

No matter the magnitude of your doubts about the nature of the world you can't come up with another world without coming up with another you. It may even be that everybody starts out fairly unique only most people get over it.

That old she-painter, she never left a track one. She wadn't no common kind of painter.

You have to right to represent people this way, he said. A man is all men. You have no right to your wretchedness.

The girls emerged in their carboncopy dresses and the boy came out of the woods stiffly and looking churlish and sullen and strange, like a child pervert.

We're all of us pretty much an assemblage of memories.

Why are you by yourself? I'm not by myself. I'm schizophrenic.

But of course what really threatens the scofflaw is not the just society but the decaying one. It is here that he finds himself becoming slowly indistinguishable from the citizenry.

It may even be that everybody starts out fairly unique only most people get over it. Come

Em qualquer acontecimento a história de todos não é a história de cada um nem tampouco a soma dessas histórias e ninguém aqui no final pode entender o motivo de sua presença pois ninguém tem como saber no que o acontecimento consiste. Na verdade, se a pessoa soubesse é bem provável que se ausentasse e como você pode ver isso não pode ser parte do plano se é que algum plano há.

All writers are insane!

And that everyone has to find their own path, even brothers.

For far too long she'd made herself small, made herself fit into their world.

Was waren sie doch alle für Schauspieler! Alle, wie sie dastanden. Aber was spielten sie? Das, was die anderen sehen wollten? Das, was sie selbst gern sein wollten?

Men liked to claim how different they were, yet they were all so alike.

Which skin shall I give you, Clara Ferber? Do you want fur? Do you want stone?

There's something really liberating about having some corner of your life that's yours, that no one gets to see except you. It's a little like nudity or taking a dump. Everyone gets naked every once in a while. Everyone has to squat on the toilet. There's nothing shameful, deviant or weird about either of them.