Quotes About Uniqueness

Laura began to model herself more and more on those around her; to grasp that the unpardonable sin is to vary from the common mould.

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy . what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.

The place where most people aren't is where the real thing is.

A free society cherishes nonconformity. It knows from the non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas.

Like what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

Use what talent you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.

The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.

Why do you need to be like anyone? You're good as you are,

She was as easy to recognize in that crowd as a rose among nettles.

At that meeting he was struck for the first time by the endless variety of men's minds, which prevents a truth from ever presenting itself identically to two persons.

Toate familiile fericite se aseam?n? între ele. Fiecare familie nefericit? este nefericit? în felul ei.

Olenin always took his own path and had an unconscious objection to the beaten tracks.

Todas as famílias felizes são iguais. As infelizes o são cada uma à sua maneira

Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Everything

There were no other eyes in the world like them. In the whole world there was only one being able to unite in itself the universe and the meaning of life for him.

Men are like rivers: the water is the same in each, and alike in all; but every river is narrow here, is more rapid there, here slower, there broader, now clear, now cold, now dull, now warm. It is the same with men. Every man carries in himself the germs of every human quality

Hay tantas mentes, como hombres y tantas clases de amor, como corazones

no disease suffered by a live man can be known, for every living person has his own peculiarities and always has his own peculiar, personal, novel, complicated disease, unknown to medicine—not a disease of the lungs, liver, skin, heart, nerves, and so on mentioned in medical books, but a disease consisting of one of the innumerable combinations of the maladies of those organs.

Let me give you a piece of advice: Leo Tolstoy is not the only human being on this planet. Yet all I ever hear you talking about is Leo Tolstoy . . . (tr Benjamin Sher)

Wszystkie szcz??liwe rodziny s? do siebie podobne, ka?da nieszcz??liwa rodzina jest nieszcz??liwa na swój sposób.

Men are like rivers: the water is the same in each, and alike in all; but every river is narrow here, is more rapid there, here slower, there broader, now clear, now cold, now dull, now warm. It is the same with men. Every man carries in himself the germs of every human quality, and sometimes one manifests itself, sometimes another, and the man often becomes unlike himself, while still remaining the same man.