Quotes About Individuality

Pooling people in race silos is akin to zoologists grouping raccoons, tigers, and okapis on the basis that they are all stripey." 8

What would you call yourself if you didn't use anyone or anything else's associations to label you?

Isn't a gay Mormon like an oxymoron?' 'Do I look like an oxymoron to you?' 'An oxymormon.

Nació en un páramo. Era un niñita nacida envuelta en un cuerpo de niño en un páramo

Lili chiuse gli occhi (li sentiva così pesanti sotto lo strato di cipria!) e pensò a Copenhagen come a una città dove lei e Einar potevano vivere entrambi come una stessa persona.

I do not believe in race; I abhor any form of racialism or nationalism; and I never belonged to the Jewish faith. Thus I do not see on what grounds I could possibly consider myself as a Jew. I do sympathize with minorities; but although this has made me stress my Jewish origin, I do not consider myself a Jew.

What can I say? Life's no bed of roses For a kid who's different, A kid with horns. A bed of roses? LMAO!

If you try to fit the mold of your organization too much, the rap will be that you are too dull or too dry or too sycophantic. So you might as well be yourself and get points for having the courage of your own style.

Be yourself, but disarm potential critics where you can by being self-deprecating.

Being transformed also means being unconformed.

How many things we acquire only because others bought them and because they are in a good many homes. Many of our problems are explained by the fact that we copy the example of others: rather than following reason, we are led astray by convention. If only a few people did something, we wouldn't imitate them. But when the majority starts to act a certain way, we follow along, too, as if something should be more honorable just because it's more frequent.11

I think intelligence is totally subjective it's like sexiness.

Why do people feel the need to put labels on people?

Vivimos sometidos a la tiranía de los deseos ajenos

Could it be that they were sick enough at this point of their own lives to get worked up about those of others? That's always the case. We live under the dictates of others' desires. Natalie and François didn't want to become a TV series for their crowd. For the moment, they loved the idea of being two people alone in the world, in the most perfect cliché of romantic schmaltzy serenity.

Readers always find themselves in a book, in one way or another. Reading is a completely egotistical pleasure. Unconsciously we expect books to speak to us. An author can write the most farfetched or implausible story ever, but there will still be readers who will still be readers who will say: 'I don't believe it: you wrote the story of my life!

Gibt es ihn, diesen Kamikaze-Mann, der eine Frau aufhalten würde, um ihr an den Kopf zu werfen: »Wie können Sie nur solche Schuhe tragen? Sie pferchen Ihre Zehen wie in einem Gulag zusammen. Sie sind der Stalin Ihrer Füße, eine Schande ist das!« Wer wäre zu so etwas fähig?

Hoy en día vivimos sometidos a la dictadura de la felicidad de los demás. O más bien de la presunta felicidad…

La necesidad de estar solo se considera a veces como un comportamiento antisocial.

Elle veut que personne ne l'aime. Personne, sauf elle.

mais leurs avis, au fond, je m'en fous, je ne juge pas leurs choix, alors il faut me laisser libre maintenant, libre de tenter d'être heureuse.

Neviens neklaus?s cilv?kos, kuri apgalvo, ka v?las b?t vieni. V?lme p?c vienatnes noteikti ir slim?ga tieksme.

Auf die ein oder andere Weise erkennt sich ein Leser in einem Buch immer selbst wieder. Angeregtes Lesen ist die totale Egomanie. Man ist automatisch auf der Suche nach dem, was einen persönlich anspricht. Ein Autor kann eine völlig groteske und unwahrscheinlich anmutende Geschichte erzählen, es wird immer einen Leser geben, der verkündet: »Unglaublich, Sie haben mein Leben aufgeschrieben!«

Él quería ser como ellos, escapar de la dictadura del sentimiento.