Quotes About Individuality

I am a selfish, conceited, impudent little animal, it is true, but, after all, I am only one grand conglomeration of Wanting…

But no matter how ferociously pitiable is the dried up graveyard, the sand and barrenness and the sluggish little stream have their own persistent individual damnation. The world is at least so constructed that its treasures may be damned each in a different manner and degree.

From insipid sweet wine; from men who wear moustaches; from the sort of people that call legs 'limbs'; from bedraggled white petticoats: Kind Devil, deliver me.

I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel - everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.-

Often we lose our identity trying to please or placate others.

Do not copy me," [Antoine] Bourdelle repeatedly told his students. "Sing your own song.

Raising a child, managing a household, and being a good wife, all the while focusing on expressing herself in ways that had never been done before, took an enormous toll on Morisot

We are the hero of our own story.

If [she] had come to prefer the company of odd ducks, it was possibly because they had no conception of oddity, or rather, they thought you were odd if you weren't.

We [-women and men-] are all equal in our creaturehood, whatever our sex, color, age, background, or abilities. But we are all different in the functions we were created to perform, as different as water from stones, and engineering from imaginative fiction.

There were so many things I wasn't that I had difficulty defining myself, especially in relation to Elise, who was so many things.

You must not ever stop being whimsical. And you must not, ever, give anyone else the responsibility for your life.

I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when singing is not necessarily prescribed.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

The fashionable woman wears clothes. The clothes don't wear her.

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

It had come to him that no one would ever look from these eyes but he: that among all the lives, numerous beyond imagination, in which he might have lived, he was this one, pinned to this single point of infinity; the rest always to be alien, he to be I.

Se le ocurrió que nadie sino él miraría nunca desde sus ojos, que de entre todas las vidas en que podía haber vivido, más numerosas que lo imaginable, esta era la suya, clavada en este único punto del infinito; el resto siempre sería ajeno, él sería yo.

One exercises to be a whole man, not a creature bred like a plough-ox to do one thing.

the tenet of the philosopher that for each man there was only one perfect friend;

Maud Wainwright, a big, irregularly handsome woman, probably fifty and not ashamed of it

You can map your life through your favorite movies, and no two people's maps will be the same.

Unless I am allowed to tell the story of my life in my own way, I cannot tell it at all.

Love your spirited child for who she is. Because she is more, she will make you more.