Quotes About Individuality

Under that democracy, license was not confounded with freedom. Political 'equality' has been understood in two senses: as meaning either that all are to share absolutely alike, or that every man is to receive his due. Our ancestors preferred that 'equality' which does not efface the distinction between merit and worthlessness.

There are three reasons why men of genius have long hair. One is, that they forget it is growing. The second is, that they like it. The third is, that it comes cheaper; they wear it long for the same reason they wear their hats long.

Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?

La lettura è solitudine. Si legge da soli anche quando si è in due.

And in this self-expression I put all the thoughts I had about her, I released the anger she made me feel, my amorous way of thinking about her, my determination to exist for her, the desire for me to be me, and for her to be her, and the love for myself that I put in my love for her--all the things that could be said only in that conch shell wound into a spiral.

Chi oserebbe condannarti alla perdita del tu, catastrofe non meno terribile della perdita dell'io?

A human being becomes human not through the casual convergence of certain biological conditions, but through an act of will and love on the part of other people. If this is not the case, then humanity becomes — as it is already to a large extent — no more than a rabbit-warren. But this is no longer a "free-range" warren but a "battery" one, in the conditions of artificiality in which it lives, with artificial light and chemical feed.

?u aç?k ki, bugün s?ra d??? olmayan ki?ilerin dünyas?nda ya??yoruz, en basit bireysellikleri bile reddedilen ki?ilerin dünyas?nda, öyle ki, insanlar önceden belirlenmi? davran??lar?n soyut bir toplam?na dönü?mü? durumdalar. bugün sorun, insan?n benli?inin bir bölümünü yitirmesi de?il art?k, tümünü yitirmesi, hiç var olmamas?d?r.

One gets used to persisting in one's habits, to finding oneself isolated for good reasons, to putting up with the discomfort that this causes, to finding the right way to hold on to positions which are not shared by the majority.

El único camino para estar con los otros de verdad era estar separado de los otros, imponer tercamente a sí y a los otros esa incómoda singularidad y soledad en todas las horas y en todos los momentos de su vida, como es la vocación del poeta, del explorador, del revolucionario.

In short, what you are doing is very beautiful but grammatically it doesn't change a thing. At the moment when you most appear to be a united voi, a second person plural, you are two tu's, more separate and circumscribed than before.

Agilulfo trascina un morto e pensa:"[...]E' vero che chi esiste ci mette sempre anche un qualcosa, una impronta particolare, che a me non riuscirà mai di dare. Ma se il loro segreto è qui, in questo succo di trippe, grazie, ne faccio a meno. Questa valle di corpi nudi che si disgregano non mi fa più ribrezzo del carnaio del genere umano vivente.

Decide for yourself. Everybody reacts in a different way.

Sözlerim, senin etraf?nda hangi ülkeyi kurarsa kursun, bu saray?n yerinde kaz?klar üzerine kurulmu? bir köy de olsa, meltem sana çamur dolu bir nehir a?z?n?n kokusunu da getirse sen, hep kendi durdu?un yere benzer bir yerden göreceksin onu.

Cosimo stretched out his arms. 'I came up here before you, my lords, and here I will stay afterwards too!' -'You want to withdraw!' cried El Conde. -'No, to resist,' replied the Baron.

There can be no love if one does not remain oneself with all one's strength.

I thought only of the Earth. It was the Earth that caused each of us to be that someone he was rather than someone else; Up there wrested from the earth, it was as if I were no longer that I, nor she that She for me.

Anyway, the conclusion to which all stories come is that the life a person has led is one and one alone, uniform and compact as a shrunken blanket where you can't distinguish the fibers of the weave.

Who ever said this author had an unmistakable tone? On the contrary, he is known as an author who changes greatly from one book to the next. And in these very changes you recognize him as himself.

Fu una batosta dura per me. Ma poi, che farci? Continuai la mia strada, in mezzo alle trasformazioni del mondo, anch'io trasformandomi. Ogni tanto, tra le tante forme degli esseri viventi, incontravo qualcuno che «era uno» più di quanto io non lo fossi: [...]. Tutti costoro avevano qualcosa, lo so, che li rendeva in qualche modo superiori a me, sublimi, e che rendeva me, in confronto a loro, mediocre. Eppure non mi sarei mai cambiato con nessuno di loro.

When examples of openness of thought come from a single ruler, they count for nothing, except to show that he alone can afford to be like that because he is king.

Non ci può essere amore se non si è se stessi con tutte le proprie forze.

This thought has always filled me with terror: that I might be one of those people, that I might be only one of those people.

half-respected conventions spread insecurity and incoherence of behavior rather than freedom and frankness.