Quotes About Individuality

Being himself was more exhausting than impersonating a stage character.

The ideal citizen of a tyrannical state is the man or woman who bows in silent obedience in exchange for the status of a well-cared-for herd animal. Thinking people become the tyrant's greatest enemies.

You are the boss of your knitting and can do what you like; there is no "wrong" in knitting as long as you are pleased with the results.

To think is to differ.

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character.

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.

I am only true when I'm alone.

Never suffer because you don't have an opinion on this or that topic. Never suffer because you are not something or because you are.

They gave me a name and alienated me from myself.

Depersonalization like the deposing of useless individuality— the loss of everything that can be lost, while still being. To take away from yourself little by little, with an effort so attentive that no pain is felt, to take away from yourself like one who gets free of her own skim, her own characteristics. Everything that characterizes me is just the way I am most easily viewed by others and end up being superficially recognizable to myself.

I don't want beauty, I want identity.

I want to seize my is. And like a bird I sing hallelujah into the air. And my song belongs to no one. But no passion suffered in pain and love is not followed by an hallelujah.

Are we fruit of the same tree? No - Angela is everything I wanted to be and never was. What is she? She's the waves of the sea. While I'm the dense and gloomy forest. I'm in the depths. Angela scatters in sparkling fragments. Angela is my vertigo. Angela is my reverberation.

La coherencia es mutilación. Quiero el desorden

I'm not a synonym—I'm a proper noun.

I don't know what my secret is. Tell me about yours, teach me about the secret of each one of us.

The courage to be something other than what one is, to give birth to oneself, and to leave one's former body on the ground. And without having answered to anyone about whether it was worthwhile.

Clarice Lispector

It suddenly occurred to me that you don't need order to live. There is no pattern to follow and the pattern itself doesn't even exist: I am born.

When I surprise myself at the mirror I am not frightened because I think I am ugly or beautiful. It is because I discover I am of a different nature. After not having seen myself for a while I almost forget I am human, I forget my past and I am as free from end and awareness as something merely alive. I am also surprised, eyes open pale at the mirror, that there are so many things in me besides what I know, so many things always silent.

Quiero aceptar mi libertad sin pensar en lo que muchos creen: que existir es cosa de locos, un caso de demencia. Porque lo parece. Existir no es lógico.

In my core I have the strange impression that I don't belong to the human species

She herself asked for nothing, but her sex made its demands like a sunflower germinating in a tomb.

Nothing that I am not can interest me, it is impossible to be anything more than what you are.