Quotes About Individuality

Ser poeta não é uma ambição minha. É a minha maneira de estar sozinho.

I was never a keeper of sheep

Nothing at all reminds us of something else when we pay attention to it. Each thing only reminds us of what it is And it's only what nothing else is. The fact that it's it separates it from every other thing. (Everything's nothing without another thing that's not it).

Quem ama é diferente de quem é. É a mesma pessoa sem ninguém

I don't bother with rhyme. Rarely Are two trees the same, one beside the other. I think and write like flowers have color But with less perfection in my way of expressing myself Because I lack the divine simplicity Of wholly being only my exterior. I see and I'm moved, Moved the way water runs when the ground is sloping And what I write is as natural as the rising wind...

From my village I see as much in the Universe as you can see from earth. So my village is as big as any other land Because I'm the size of what I see, Not the size of my height.

Uno tiene una vida incluso cuando no tiene vida.

Es cierto que uno quizás sea más excéntrico - mañoso - autista que los demás, pero uno está en su derecho.

No me interesa lo in, no me obsesiona estar on, no cultivo lo cool, no me fascina lo fashion y mi único must es masturbarme; lo friki me da escalofríos. Lo trendy, temblores.

No single man can be taken as a model for a perfect figure, for no man lives on earth who is endowed with the whole of beauty.

Ogni volta che parliamo di «personalità» - sia maschile che femminile - noi ci riferiamo a una totalità, a un insieme composito di molteplici aspetti. Naturalmente alcuni saranno predominanti e sarà quindi più facile notarli dall'esterno; altri invece saranno più velati, nascosti, ma non per questo non faranno sentire la loro presenza.

Nonconformity is the highest evolutionary attainment of social animals.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I am I, and I wish I weren't.

I like being myself. Myself and nasty.

Every man and every woman is a star.

La miopía exalta la individualidad. Verme a mí perfectamente y a los otros como pobres seres borrosos.

I mourn myself; this is my right.

Yo no sé hablar como todos. Mis palabras suenan extrañas y vienen de lejos, de donde no es, de los encuentros con nadie.

Dígalo, dígalo sin miedo; tal como va el mundo todos los que no somos imbéciles necesitamos estar un poco locos.

PASTOR- Mi nombre verdadero es Juan. Poca cosa, ¿verdad? ¡Pero humano, señor, humano! Millares de Juanes han escrito libros y han plantado árboles. Millones de mujeres han dicho alguna vez en cualquier rincón del mundo <>. En cambio, ¿quién ha querido nunca al <>? Juan sabe a pueblo y a eternidad: es el hierro, la madera de roble, el pan de trigo. <> es el nylon.

Y a lo mejor esto constituye la más grande virtud del hombre, su toque divino. El último de los atorrantes de Flores es más interesante que una estrella, solamente porque su comportamiento no es predecible.

Leaping is as beautiful as crawling: don't compare yourself; develop your own values. Change your world or change worlds.