Quotes About Individuality

If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up.

Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

Through concentrating on a specialty too early in life, a man becomes a kind of useful machine, but not a harmoniously developed personality. It is essential that the student acquire an understanding for, and a lively feeling for values. Otherwise, with his specialized knowledge, he more closely resembles a well-trained

Sometimes the thoughts and feelings I had didn't really agree with each other, so I decided I must be lots of different people inside my brain.

Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now and walked away and you never saw each other again for the rest of your lives, and you lived an ordinary waking life for another fifty years, even so on your deathbed you would still know she was part of you.

We are all glamorous, some more so than others.

Don't let fashion dictate your style.

She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself.

In a world of chemically induced sanity, a little lunacy confers immense advantages.

Unfortunately, many people sleepwalk through life without conscious awareness of their own system, if they have one at all, and are therefore susceptible to external notions o right and wrong imposed by others, particlarly members of the ofen eminently unqualified upper class and their support system, mass media.

People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

He simply knew his own mind and found it company enough.

I do feel like I have always, in my life, been inclined to be on the outside, walk a different path or something. Because of that, and increasingly over the years, my sense of distance from mainstream society or from the way culture works, I have a different kind of perception of it.

There are many things that people do happily that I can't imagine why they would do it... But I have to say that even though I am critical or judgmental of society at large, I'm not critical of people individually. We are who we are.

Her face had always held too much personality to be merely beautiful.

It's so much better to have sex with someone who's always available, knows what you want and who loves you more deeply than anyone else ever can. Yourself.

Najia can feel yts subdermal activators against her forearm. Not man not woman not both not neither. Nute. Another way of being human, speaking a phsyical language she does not understand. More alien to her than any man, any father, yet this body next to hers is loyal, tough, funny courageous, clever, kind, sensual, vulnerable. Sweet. Sexy. All you could wish in a friend of the soul. Or a lover.

they were triplets and as mutually indistinguishable as peas in a pod or days in a prison.

The Ministry of Pain does not judge, who are you to say what is normal and what is not?

Uniquely, he understood what his days with BeeJee &ersenn had been teaching him: he, alone, was the alien.

And so he took a name. From the unbelievable towers of light he took a name he felt was worthy of his massive uniqueness. "Kilimanjaro West," he said. The stolen name fit well. "I am Kilimanjaro West.

She loved her dream, because in the midst of the lifeswarm, it was one thing that was hers and hers alone, her dream of flying. Just … flying. Never to, or from, anywhere

onward he went, a named thing, rooted in the universe, yet apart from it, through the night and the rain-dancing streets.