Quotes About Individuality

thought of the countless people in the world who were born to live and die in anonymity, playing out lives no better or worse than anyone else's and no one noticing. Sometimes we give others who don't make a big mark in some way a moment in the limelight in fiction. Our novelists' eyes and ears say to our readers, "Look here, please. Listen. This existence mattered, too." That

What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose not to do it, with anyone, ever.

Fue a partir de entonces, cuando yo fui MALA. Para todos, no. Para Tata Maria, Isabel, Jerónimo y Fabián, sólo un poco rara.

It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow.

The role of a writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say.

La individualidad es motivada y perpetuada por el deseo, y la causa de todo deseo es la ignorancia (avidy?).

I cling to my imperfection, as the very essence of my being.

Je tiens à mon imperfection comme à ma raison d'être.

Each one dreams the dream of life in his own way. I have dreamed it in my library; and when the hour shall come in which I must leave this world, may it please God to take me from my ladder—from before my shelves of books!...

I am crazy, I know, Thérèse. But who is not?

Let us love the books which please us and cease to trouble ourselves about classifications and schools of literature.

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

Ask kin-tsugi, the Japanese art of "golden joinery," in which a broken bowl is fixed and seamed with glow, cracks to the forefront, filled in by gold, rendering the repaired thing more remarkable, honoring its shatter. The result is neither broken nor unbroken, but both at once, shadow, object, corona around an eclipsed sun. Own the ways we break, it seems to say: understand that the fault lines of a mind or body are individual, and honor them.

In a perfect world, I don't think it [one's sexual orientation] is anyone else's business, but I do think there is value in standing up and being counted.

Trying to please everyone all the time never works. It leads to hating oneself and then hating oneself even more when one later tries to assert one's authority. Today

From the time we were little, you treated us as if our ideas mattered. You and Daddy encouraged us to form our own opinions, and listened when we expressed them. We were not just children in your eyes; we were people who deserved respect. That was a powerful lesson.

We ike to think we are our own people, but sometimes it seems we are just playing out a script that was imprinted in us along ago.

It is clear to what an extent this neorealism differs from the formal concept which consists of decking out a formal story with touches of reality. As for the technique, properly so called, Ladri di Biciclette, like a lot of other films, was shot in the street with nonprofessional actors but its true merit lies elsewhere: in not betraying the essence of things, in allowing them first of all to exist for their own sakes, freely; it is in loving them in their singular individuality.

I wish I could change my sex as easily as I can change my shirt.

Vous ne pourrez jamais voir cette étoile comme je la voyais. Vous ne comprenez pas : elle est comme le cÅ"ur d'une fleur sans cÅ"ur.

I strive in relation to other men, to discover the nature, if not the necessity, of my difference from them. Is it not precisely to the degree I become conscious of this difference that I shall recognize what I alone have been put on this earth to do, what unique message I alone may bear, so that I alone can answer for its fate.

But Nadja was poor, which in our time is enough to condemn her, once she decided not to behave entirely according to the imbecile code of good sense and good manners.

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.