Quotes About Individuality

What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world?

Casi no soy, pero mis versos ritman la vida y su esplendor. Yo fui Walt Whitman.

Any life, no matter how long or complex it may be, is made up essentially of a single moment—the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

ÎnÅ£elese c? nici un destin nu-i mai bun decât altul, dar c? fiecare om trebuie s? dea ascultare celui pe care-l poart? în?untrul s?u.

Un hombre se confunde, gradualmente, con la forma de su destino; un hombre es, a la larga, sus circunstancias.

History adds that before or after he died, he discovered himself standing before God, and said to Him: I, who have been so many men in vain, wish to be one, to be myself. God's voice answered him out of a whirlwind: I, too, am not I; I dreamed the world as you, Shakespeare, dreamed your own work and among the forms of my dream are you, who like me are many, yet no one.

Nombres tenían pero podían prescindir de apellidos.

There is no human being on earth capable of declaring with certitude who he is.

I don't think you should try to be loyal to your century or your opinions, because you are being loyal to them all the time. You have a certain voice, a certain kind of face, a certain way of writing, and you can't run away from them even if you want to. So why bother to be modern or contemporary, since you can't be anything else?

cominciò a comprendere. Comprese che un destino non è migliore d'un altro, ma che ogni uomo deve compiere quello che porta in se.

ÎnÈ›elese c? nici un destin nu-i mai bun decât altul, dar c? fiecare om trebuie s? dea ascultare celui pe care-l poart? înl?untrul s?u.

Me abochornaba ese hombre con miedo, como si yo fuera el cobarde, no Vincent Moon. Lo que hace un hombre es como si lo hicieran todos los hombres. Por eso no es injusto que una desobediencia en un jardín contamine al género humano; por eso no es injusto que la crucifixión de un solo judío baste para salvarlo. Acaso Schopenhauer tiene razón: yo soy los otros, cualquier hombre es todos los hombres, Shakespeare es de algún modo el miserable John Vincent Moon.

He realized that one destiny is no better than the next and that every man must accept the destiny he bears inside himself.

La imagen que un solo hombre puede formar es la que no toca a ninguno. Infinitas cosas hay en la tierra; cualquiera puede equipararse a cualquiera. Equiparar estrellas con hojas no es menos arbitrario que equipararlas con peces o con pájaros. En cambio, nadie no sintió nunca alguna vez que el destino es fuerte y es torpe, que es inocente y es también inhumano.

Cada uno de nosotros es, sucesivamente, no uno, sino muchos. Y estas personalidades sucesivas, que emergen las unas de las otras, suelen ofrecer entre si los mas raros y asombrosos contrastes.

It's the only dish I serve my craziness for color in.

What gets left of a man amounts to a part. To his spoken part. To a part of speech

A je?li kto? ci? zapyta kim jeste??, to odpowiedz Ja jestem Nikt - jak rzek? niegdy? Polifemowi Odys.

None of us are sovereign over others, although to such ill-omened thoughts we cling.

A year is plenty of time to fit in, right? Like a square peg is going to fit into a round hole if you just give it time? You could say that when I arrived here in the middle of my seventh-grade year I settled into a well-defined niche that was purely my own and remains so in eighth grade. The niche of a minuscule, mouthy Mohawk misfit. And nothing is going to change that.

Why are all those dogs tied to people like that? Don't they have any lives of their own?

I always feel uncomfortable when people speak about ordinary mortals because I've never met an ordinary man, woman or child.

Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

They thought that it would be a disgrace to go forth as a group. Each entered the forest at a point that he himself had chosen, where it was darkest and there was no path. If there is a path it is someone else's path and you are not on the adventure.