Quotes About Individuality

Each of us is more than one person, many people, a proliferation of our one self.

The essence of pleasure lies in splitting yourself into more than one person.

To organise our life in such a way that it becomes a mystery to others, that those who are closest to us will only be closer to not knowing us. That is how I've shaped my life, almost without thinking about it, but I did it with so much instinctive art that even to myself I've become a not entirely clear and definite individual.

BaÅŸkalar?n?n kiÅŸiliÄŸimizi istila etmelerinin de özellikle önüne geçmeliyiz. Ä°nsanlar?n bizimle herhangi bir ÅŸekilde ilgilenmesinde, eÅŸi görülmemiÅŸ bir hoyratl?k vard?r. Åžu s?radan 'Nas?ls?n?z?' laf?n? affedilmez bir kabal?k olmaktan ç?karan ÅŸey varsa, o da genellikle zaten içinin boÅŸ, samimiyetsiz olmas?d?r.

Through rational thought I can recognize that a man is a living being just like me, but for my true, involuntary self he has always had less importance than a tree, if the tree is more beautiful.

Those who truly suffer don't form a group or go around as a mob. Those who suffer, suffer alone.

Every pleasure is a vice, because to seek pleasure is what everyone does in life, and the only black vice is to do what everyone else does.

Alguien conoce las fronteras de su alma, para poder decir, yo soy yo?

The cultivation of the imagination is hindered by the cultivation of life. It is the uncommon man who rules.

A cada quien su alcohol. Existir me procura bastante alcohol.

The most contemptible thing about dreams is that everyone has them.

I am me again, exactly as I am not.

El único modo de estar de acuerdo con el mundo es estar en desacuerdo con nosotros mismos. El absurdo es divino.

Be pure, not in order to be noble or strong, but to be yourself.

I was a citizen. At the heart of my thoughts I wasn't I.

It would be interesting to be two kings at the same time: not the one soul of them both, but two distinct, kingly souls.

Hissetmek- ne renktir acaba?

Fernando Pessoa

I'm two people who mutually keep their distance — Siamese twins living separate lives.

O que devera humilhar-me é a minha bandeira, que desfraldo; e o riso com que deveria rir de mim, é um clarim com que saúdo e gero uma alvorada em que me faço.

When it comes to dreams, I'm no different from the errand boy and the seamstress. The only thing that distinguishes me from them is that I can write. Yes, that's an activity, a real fact about myself that distinguishes me from them. But in my soul I'm just the same.

Încep s? m? cunosc.Eu nu exist. Sunt intervalul dintre ceea ce doresc s? fiu ÅŸi ceea ce au f?cut alÅ£ii din mine, Sau jum?tatea acestui interval,c?ci mai exist? ÅŸi via??... Asta sunt,în sfârÅŸit... Stinge lumina,închide uÅŸa,f? cumva s? nu se mai aud? târâÅŸitul papucilor pe coridor, S? pot r?mâne singur în camer? ÅŸi s?-mi tihneasc? bine de mine însumi. E un univers ieftin.

20 [56] That is the central error of a literary imagination: the idea that other people are like us and must therefore feel like us. Fortunately for humanity, each man is only himself and only the genius is given the ability to be others as well.

If I was reincarnated, it was without myself, without my I.