Quotes About Individuality

Elle morte, je n'avais plus aucune raison de m'accorder à la marche du Vivant supérieur (l'espèce). Ma particularité ne pourrait jamais plus s'universaliser (sinon, utopiquement, par l'écriture, dont le projet, dès lors, devait devenir l'unique but de ma vie).

To be jealous is to conform...To reject jealousy is to transgress a law.

The saint is first and foremost a being without formal context; the idea of fashion is antipathetic to the idea of sainthood.

It was the inward, not the outer world that engrossed Shackleton. He did not share the semi-pagan nature worship in which Nansen and Nordenskjöld were steeped.

Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual.

Harriman was a very different type from Pierpont.

He once told a friend, "Perhaps my sensibility is the effect of an exaggerated estimate of my services to the U[nited] States, but on such a subject every man will judge for himself.

He even had wigs styled for different occasions: golf, church, short walks, and so on.

He gravitated toward women who were free and independent, sassy and high-spirited.

Some say that I was once uncommonly beautiful, but I wouldn't wish beauty on any woman who has not her own freedom, and who chooses not the hands that claim her.

For, after all, in science one achieves the greatest impact (and often the greatest headlines) not by going along with the herd, but by bucking against it.

My sex is me as my mind is me, and nobody will make me feel shame about it.

Maintenant, je le sais bien. On ne partage pas les rêves.

Now I know that without mirrors we are different, we're not really the same...Maybe they had noticed us looking worriedly at other people's faces, as if we wee trying to see in them what we had become

I worked thirteen years, got me nowhere. I feel like I tried it their way, and to hell with them. Now I'm going to try it my way.

I'm twenty-nine, yes really, I'm from Aspen, Colorado, I'm six feet one, yes really, I've been at Quantico two years, yes I date guys, no I dress like this just because I like it, no I'm not married, no I don't currently have a boyfriend, and no I don't want to have dinner with you tonight.

We're all atheists. You don't believe in Zeus or Thor or Neptune or Augustus Caesar or Mars or Venus or Sun Ra. You reject a thousand gods. Why should it bother you if someone else rejects a thousand and one?

So like I said, what are you running from?" "From being like people, I guess.

With his life. But Springfield is just one guy.

Why do what everyone else is doing?

First: Character is king.

But, the third conclusion, and the most confounding conclusion: You can't design a character too specifically.

Deal with it," Reacher said. "It happened. It can't un-happen. Most folks aren't going to like it. Deep down humans haven't been modern very long. But some won't care. You'll find them." "Are you one of them?

I said, "I don't need no education.