Quotes About Individuality

The epithet "monolithic" is often used as a term of praise in this country; but a monolith is a mass of stone. Human beings are far more complex.

You step out of the shower and the entire nation calms— a drop of lemon-egg shampoo, you smell like bees, a brief kiss, I don't know anything about you—except the spray of freckles on your shoulders! which makes me feel so thrillingly alone. I stand on earth in my pajamas, penis sticking out— for years in your direction.

A man should smell better than his country

So he's nervous about me making trouble at the bus stop. It makes me want to laugh. Just as truthfully, I could've told him I was class president. On the football team. Straight-A student. But what was interesting about any of that?

Me, I'd rather be out in that world than stuck in those closed-up ivy halls that weren't meant to fit me.

Offers herself up whole, without conflicts, a woman who is many things, all at once.

att inte vilja annat än kritik - denna måttlighet är den sanna radikalismen.

Now, individuality is the sign of superior races and of civilizations already developed. If we make use of an expression dear to Nietzsche, we might say that in Asia, to speak of humanity is to speak of its plains; in Japan as in Europe, one represents it above all by its mountains.

Lock your freaks.

Ivan and I: the world converging. Malina and I, since we are one: the world diverging.

There are people who think that Malina and I are married. We never considered that we might be married, that such a possibility could exist, nor even the idea that other people might think that we were married. For the longest time it never crossed our minds that, like other people, we appear as man and wife wherever we go. This was a complete surprise for us, but we had no idea what to make of it. We laughed a lot.

Quién me pregunta a mí, quién pregunta alguna vez a personas que piensan por sí mismas y se atreven a vivir, y en qué me habéis convertido, a mí y a tantas otras con esta absurda actitud comprensiva ante cualquier problema, acaso no se le ha ocurrido a nadie que también se asesina a las personas cuando se les priva de la palabra y con ello de la posibilidad de vivir y pensar.

Bit mig då, tänkte jag; jag är en sån som man biter.

It doesn't matter if anyone else ever sees my pictures or not. They are for me, part of who I am and how I express my interpretation of what I see in this world.

One has to manage alone as best one can. (Karin Bergman)

There are also many natural talents that are suppressed because their exercise would conflict with prevailing

Yet we can look at other people and, more or less, see the inadequacy of our ideological individuality. We often point out that someone "was born a bad seed and was going to turn out rotten no matter what," or someone "was destined to triumph and succeed." In fact, "it's in the stars" is still used, even though in modern intellectual circles the concepts of Fate and Destiny are

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my Life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

Beyond my fear I felt the need to defend my identity, to not let them turn me into a thing or a number.

Why go for a costly, sickly, mass-produced purebred when shelters are full of one-of-a-kind mixed breeds who are literally dying for a home?

Since all men are created equal, I have to thank God I was born a woman.

To be clear: I am not anti-marriage. I am anti-marrying-people-who-suck-at-life-and-will-suck-the-life-out-of-you.

You are a reader, not a cheerleader" (from interview at Lilies and Cannonballs Review)

Hey... don't lose to the world, to that common sense thing the world embraces.