Quotes About Individuality

That's what being eccentric means--being natural.

Something always told me I wasn't no rich white woman.

I can't help the way they are, but I'll be damned before I become like them.

There's no such thing as perfection, and even if there were, I think it'd be rather boring.

I felt the need to be rebellious. A woman should have a moment in her life when she's rebellious, don't you think?

Really?" Catherine didn't look at all appalled. "What was it like to wear trousers in public?" "Quite . . . liberating, actually." "I daresay, I think we wear far too many layers of clothes." "I agree," both men said at once. Olivia and Catherine giggled like young girls.

we are not a reflection of others' behavior, only our own.

woman much like herself, who knew her worth was not measured by the man in her life but by her own accomplishments. Thus far in their letters, the ladies had listed

of each other, and I daresay we'd all be rather boring.

I often think that at the center of me is a voice that at last did split, a house in my heart so invaded with other people and their speech, friends I believed I was devoted to, people whose lives I can simply guess at now, that it gives me the impression I am simply a collection of them, that they all existed for themselves, but had inadvertently formed me, then vanished. But, what: Should I have been expected to create my own self, out of nothing, out of thin, thin air and alone?

Less and less we were freaks. More and more we were curiosities.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song.

Io sono un artista e ciò significa che posso essere egocentrico quanto mi pare.

The notion that everybody's bisexual is a very popular line right now, but I think its validity is limited.

I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it.

Os indivíduos são sempre-já sujeitos.

Everything that is not me is incomprehensible.

I shall always rebel against any attempt to reduce a human being to a kind of mannequin, whose deeds and questions would be comprehensible like the deeds and gestures of monarchs recorded day after day in official communiques. Six months of a life cannot catalogue the vitality, the activity of an individual; only death stops development and then, what is important is the overall meaning of a life, not the details of that life, edifying to some, scandalous to others.

Si on a regardé un homme jusqu'à ne plus voir en lui que ce qui le fait différent des autres, le particulier en lui, il est bouleversant de retrouver avec d'autant plus de force qu'on l'oubliait déjà, que l'essentiel en lui c'est ce qui ressemble aux autres

I don't give a damn what people think.

Your literary style reflects your personality.

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.--Louis Auchincloss

she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a little above the level of ordinary humanity.

she had made a discovery about life which he himself had made long since … that there is nothing of such force as the power of a person content merely to be himself, nothing so invincible as the power of simple honesty, nothing so successful as the life of one who runs alone. Somewhere