Quotes About Individuality

Que la vida es así: se pulsa un botón y la vida se enciende. Sólo que ella no sabía cuál era el botón que había que pulsar. Ni se daba cuenta de que vivía en una sociedad tecnificada donde ella era un tornillo prescindible.

Desculpai-me mas vou continuar a falar de mim que sou meu desconhecido, e ao escrever me surpreendo um pouco pois descobri que tenho um destino. Quem já não se perguntou: sou um monstro ou isto é ser uma pessoa?

she is a harmless virgin whom nobody needs. It strikes me that I don't need her either and that what I am writing could be written by another. Another writer, of course, but it would have to be a man for a woman would weep her heart out.

What an effort I make to be myself. I struggle against a tide in a boat with just enough room for my two feet in a perilous and fragile balance.

Though I sometimes scream: I no longer want to be I! but I stick to myself and inextricably there forms a tessitura of life.

A feiura é o meu estandarte de guerra. Eu amo o feio com um amor de igual para igual.

My truest life is unrecognizable, extremely interior and there is not a single word that defines it.

It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable.

Vejo que tentei dar a Maca uma situação minha: eu preciso de algumas horas de solidão por dia senão "me muero".) Quanto a mim, só sou verdadeiro quando estou sozinho.

How do I explain that my greatest fear is precisely in relation to ... to being?" (5)

Forgive me but I'm going to keep talking about me who am unknown to myself, and as I write I'm a bit surprised because I discover I have a destiny. Who hasn't ever wondered: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

O mecanismo exige e exige a minha vida. Mas eu não obedeço totalmente: se te nho que ser um objeto, que seja um objeto que grita.

And solitude is not needing. Not needing leaves a person alone, all alone. Oh, needing doesn't isolate a person, things need things: it's enough to see a chick walking to see that its destiny will be what lack will make of it, its destiny is to join, like drops of mercury cling to other drops of mercury, even though, like all drops of mercury, it has a complete and rounded existence in itself.

Here I am ready for life! Dear sirs, no one's looking at me, no one realises I exist! Yet, dear sirs, I exist, I swear that I exist! Very much, even. Look, all of you, with that triumphant attitude, look: I can vibrate, vibrate like the taunt of a harp. I can suffer with more intensity than any of you, gentleman. I am superior. And do you know why? Because I know I exist!

Only later did she think with satisfaction: I'm a typist and a virgin, and I like coca-cola.

Ainda que eu seja mais uma ninguém a vagar sem rosto pelas rodas de livros, pelas prateleiras, tenho a sensação de ser uma penetra. Tanta coisa escrita, tanta gente escrevendo. Por que eu escrevo? O que eu tenho a dizer que já não tenha sido dito de milhares de maneiras diferentes? A quem interessa o meu corpo de letras?

Nací dura, heroica, solitaria y de pie. Y he encontrado mi contrapunto en el paisaje sin elementos pintorescos y sin belleza. La fealdad es mi estandarte de guerra. Yo amo lo feo con un amor de igual a igual. Y desafío a la muerte. Yo, yo soy mi propia muerte.

For other people she didn't exist. Her only advantage over others was knowing how to swallow pills without any water, dry.

El destino de una mujer es ser mujer".

Sou como você me vê. Posso ser leve como uma brisa ou forte como uma ventania. Depende de quando e como você me vê passar.

Until now finding myself was already having an idea of a person and fitting myself into it: I'd incarnate myself into this organized person and didn't even feel the great effort of construction that is living.

Sorry dat ik zoveel fouten typ. Dat komt ten eerste doordat mijn rechterhand verbrand is. En ten tweede weet ik niet waarom. Nu een verzoek: corrigeert u mij niet. De interpunctie is de ademhaling van een zin en mijn zinnen ademen zo. En als u mij raar vindt, respecteer dat dan ook. Zelfs ik werd gedwongen mezelf te respecteren. Schrijven is een vloek.

Fui al encuentro de mí. Tranquila. alegre, plenitud sin fulminación. Simplemente yo soy yo. Y tú eres tú. Es vasto, va a durar.

Ah "persona", como não te usar e ser!