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Quotes About Uniqueness

L'America, [...] il paese della libertà, il luogo dei grandi spazi aperti dove un figlio poteva ancora sentirsi speciale. Niente, però, disturba questa sensazione quanto la presenza di altri esseri umani che si sentono altrettanto speciali.
~ Jonathan Franzen
Apparently Brooklyn needn't always push itself to be something else, something conscious and anxious, something pointed toward Manhattan.... Brooklyn might sometimes also be pleased, as here on Flatbush, to be its grubby, enduring self.
~ Jonathan Lethem
I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you , and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you , and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration. Mirror Sadness. Sadness of Domesticated Birds. Sadness of Being Sad in front of One's Parent. Humor Sadness. Sadness of Love Without Release.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Nobody wants to be a caricature. Nobody wants to be a diminished version of herself.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Could we kiss for a little bit? ... Humans are the only animal that blushes, laughs, has religion, wages war, and kisses with kips. So in a way, the more you kiss with lips, the more human you are.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Brod discovered 613 sadnesses, each perfectly unique, each a singular emotion, no more similar to any other sadness than to anger, ecstasy, guilt, or frustration. Mirror Sadness. Sadness of Domesticated Birds. Sadness of Being Sad in Front of One's Parent. Humor Sadness. Sadness of Love Without Release.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
It's music that can only come from particular instruments, broken in particular ways, and yielded with particular humility. I also believe it brings God glory in a way that is completely unique on earth or in the heavens. And that's a thought that keeps me going, too.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Porque agora sabe que ela brilhará para ele entre mil estrelas no céu sem igual da cidade negra.
~ Jorge Amado
Cada uno de nuestros duelos es único y cada manera de afrontarlos es irrepetible…
~ Jorge Bucay
La manifestación de aquello que es único en cada ser, en todos los casos y todas las personas, nunca podrá salir a luz con plenitud si antes no atraviesa una etapa de enfrentamiento con el pensamiento ajeno, con la opinión de la mayoría y con la parte del mundo que quiere dejar siempre todo «como está». No hay libertad sin pasar por el proceso de desapego de todo lo que los demás esperan de uno.
~ Jorge Bucay
Dejar atrás la identidad prestada, que entre muchos construyeron para mí, creyendo que era lo mejor, para salir a descubrir mi verdadera identidad, elástica y cambiante, siempre en proceso, que nos hace no solo únicos e irrepetibles, si no también creativos, inteligentes, humanos y potencialmente infinitos.
~ Jorge Bucay
Ben olmay? istediÄŸim kiÅŸi deÄŸilim. Olmak zorunda olduÄŸum kiÅŸi deÄŸilim. Annemin olmam? istediÄŸi kiÅŸi deÄŸilim. Daha önce olmuÅŸ olduÄŸum kiÅŸi deÄŸilim. Kimsem oyum.
~ Jorge Bucay
Benim olmana ihtiyaç duyduÄŸum kiÅŸi deÄŸilsin. Eskiden olduÄŸun kiÅŸi deÄŸilsin. Olman benim iÅŸime gelen kiÅŸi deÄŸilsin. Benim olman? istediÄŸim kiÅŸi deÄŸilsin. Sen kimsen osun.
~ Jorge Bucay
No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am demon and I am world, which is a tedious way of saying that I do not exist.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
What will die with me the day I die? What pathetic or frail image will be lost to the world? The voice of Macedonio Fernandez, the image of a bay horse in a vacant lot on the corner of Sarrano and Charcas, a bar of sulfur in the drawer of a mahogany desk?
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Uno está enamorado cuando se da cuenta de que otra persona es única.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Cada persona que pasa por nuestra vida es única. Siempre deja un poco de sí y se lleva un poco de nosotros. Habrá los que se llevarán mucho, pero no habrá de los que no nos dejarán nada. Esta es la prueba evidente de que dos almas no se encuentran por casualidad.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Non c'è nulla di antico sotto il sole. Tutto accade per la prima volta, ma in un modo eterno. Chi legge le mie parole sta inventandole.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
non si può misurare il tempo in giorni come si misura il denaro in centesimi o in pesos, perché i pesos sono tutti uguali mentre ogni giorno è diverso e forse anche ogni ora.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
There's nothing old under the sun. Everything happens for the first time, but in an eternal fashion. He who reads my words is inventing them.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
Nombres tenían pero podían prescindir de apellidos.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
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.
~ Jose Enrique Rodo
The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even — if you will — eccentricity. That is, something that can't be feigned, faked, imitated; something even a seasoned impostor couldn't be happy with. Something, in other words, that can't be shared, like your own skin — not even by a minority.
~ Joseph Brodsky