Quotes About Individuality

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You may not be the person your mother wants you to

As the doctor said, When a fifty-eight-year-old man goes downtown dressed up in a Dale Evans cowgirl outfit, complete with a skirt with fringe, it's time...

No matter how many times Dena had tried to tell her, Sookie had never understood what a great gal she was on her own. She had been one of the funniest and best-liked girls on campus, but she had never quite believed it. Everybody seemed to love Sookie but Sookie. A

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Mach dir nicht die Mühe besser zu sein als deine Zeitgenossen oder deine Vorfahren. Versuch nur besser zu sein als du selbst.

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.

Because lurking somewhere beneath the surface of your brain is a vision of loneliness, and it will be a terrible moment when it breaks through, and you realise that your future is not a green pastures, but the knackers yard. We are all separate people, and we are all alone. It is a ridiculous thing to say that no man is an island. We are all islands. You can die, and Gerry won't. Gerry can die, and you won't. Our lives just go on, separate as they have always been.

Some of us are made fat and some of us are made thin, and that's all there is to it.

When you're with a man, no one tells you he's a creep; they don't like to; they think, well, that's her choice, perhaps ours isn't up to much either; how will we ever be sure, in this polite world? In other words, as we all know, one woman's creep is another's true love, and just as well.

each of us does what we have to do for our own personal happiness. Because we're the ones who have to live with that happiness. If it's at someone else's expense, we have to live with that, too.

believe each person is responsible for their own happiness. To depend on other people to make you happy is a mistake.

Später werden ihr die Leute sagen, sie soll nicht mit Zigeunern spielen, so wie sie ihr sagen, sie solle nicht alleine trampen, oder sich das Gesicht von einem Hund ablecken lassen, aber sie achtet sowieso nicht besonders darauf, was ihr die Leute sagen.

To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn't exist.

Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.

what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.

Be what I think? But I think of being so many things!

In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from degenerating into nothing or else into a personality like all the rest.

Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego

If I were someone else, I'd go along with you all. But since I'm what I am, lay off! Go to hell without me, Or let me go there by myself! Why do we have to go together?

The cause of my profound sense of incompatibility with others is, I believe, that most people think with their feelings, whereas I feel with my thoughts. For the ordinary man, to feel is to live, and to think is to know how to live. For me, to think is to live, and to feel is merely food for thought.

A liberdade é a possibilidade do isolamento. Se te é impossível viver só, nasceste escravo.

I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I should make an ornament of my soul.