Quotes About Individuality

There is no single recipe for making the perfect tea, as there are no rules for producing a Titian or a Sesson. Each preparation of the leaves has its individuality, its special affinity with water and heat, its own method of telling a story. The truly beautiful must always be in it. How much do we not suffer through the constant failure of society to recognise this simple and fundamental law of art and life;

Uniformity of design was considered as fatal to the freshness of imagination.

But, after all, we see only our own image in the universe-- our particular idiosyncrasies dictate the mode of our perceptions.

It is not that we should disregard the creations of the past, but that we should try to assimilate them into our consciousness. Slavish conformity to traditions and formulas fetters the expression of individuality in architecture.

My soul, sir? I haven't got one. The management doesn't allow them.

But this had always been part of his work—no matter how vast the security apparatus behind you, the fact was that, in the end, you were alone.

What do you plan to do that others cannot do better?

She's a loner, she doesn't care about being around people. So neither failure nor success concerns her.

I believe, unswervingly, agonizingly, that it is in freaks that Being breaks through to the surface and reveals its true nature.

the face turns out to be one of the most superficial characteristics of the whole human form),

That's too much. You can't want all those things,' he said. 'Oh yes I can! And I'm the one to define what I can want,' I shouted furiously

What makes us most human is the possession of a unique and irreproducible story, that we take place over time and leave behind our traces.

every single Person has their own expression which he or she overuses. Or uses incorrectly. These words or phrases are the key to their intellect. Mr. "Apparently," Mr. "Generally," Mrs. "Probably," Mr. "Fucking," Mrs. "Don't You Think?," Mr. "As If.

Everything about my own face that seemed to me familiar and obvious had vanished; what remained was a distinctive scattering of dots that symbolized the planets set against the celestial vault. I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.

?ycie w t?umie jest gorsze ni? wi?zienie.

But children aren't people. Children become people when they wriggle out of your arms and say "no.

Older ladies dressed like hippies would maintain that they knew what they were doing.

In fact, thought Karen, women could get along perfectly fine without men altogether.

I think we all feel great ambivalence at the sight of our own Horoscope. On the one hand we're proud to see that the sky is imprinted on our individual life, like a postmark with a date stamped on a letter – this makes it distinct, one of a kind. But at the same time it's a form of imprisonment in space, like a tattooed prison number. There's no escaping it. I cannot be someone other than I am. How awful.

The state ceases to impose the shackles of daily oppression, but helps people realize their hopes and dreams. And Man is not just a cog in the system, not just a playing role, but a free Creature.

Moliwda knows that despite appearances, it is a happy marriage. Meaning: They each do their own thing.

He looks like a guy who discovered not so long ago that he's not really so different from everybody else - thus attaining, in other words, his own enlightenment. (page 408)

There are more than enough traits and Characteristics in this world for each of us to be richly endowed, I thought to myself.

Jedni przychodz? na ?wiat na górze, w s?onecznych rejonach, inni na dole, bez ?wiat?a ludzkie grzyby. Wszystko zdarza si? tylko raz i my sami jeste?my jednorazowi. Nie by?o nas, zanim si? urodzili?my, i nie b?dzie nas jak umrzemy. Raj- to cyfrowy sen. Nikt nas nie wybawi, nie naprawi, nie zado??uczyni. Ka?dego dnia stajemy si? jeszcze bardziej bezradni