Quotes About Uniqueness

There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

Whether they are raised in indigenous or modern culture, there are two things that people crave: the full realization of their innate gifts, and to have these gifts approved, acknowledged, and confirmed. There are countless people in the West whose efforts are sadly wasted because they have no means of expressing their unique genius. In the psyches of such people there is an inner power and authority that fails to shine because the world around them is blind to it.

SHE IS ON RECORD, SHE IS THE RECORD!

Well, it's true. If she ever had an original thought it would die of loneliness.

everyone else got lumped into the WAME category like we were all one big, homogenous mass and not worthy of distinct categorization.

all souls cannot be the same, that it is necessary there be different types in order to honor [20]each of God's perfections in a particular way.

if all flowers wanted to be roses, nature would lose her springtime beauty,

I always find beauty in things that are odd & imperfect - they are much more interesting.

It's the things that aren't accepted as conventionally beautiful that I find more attractive.

Write like yourself, only more so.

Har du aldrig varit rädd att ni var för olika? - Jag ska ge dig ett gott råd: om du är på ett ställe där alla människor är som du, stick därifrån så fort du kan!

if you ever find yourself in a place where everyone around you is just like you, get out of there as fast as you can.

I'm not for everyone. I'm barely for me.

There's something to be said that if everyone likes something there's gotta be something fucking wrong with it on some level. Unless it's ice cream.

The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.

The universe is true for us all and dissimilar to each of us.

A well-read man will yawn with boredom when one speaks to him of a new "good book," as he imagines a sort of composite of all the good books he has read, whereas a good book is something special, unforeseeable, made up not of the sum of all previous masterpieces but of something which the most thorough assimilation of every one of them would not enable him to discover, since it exists not in their sum but beyond it.

A new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of existence beyond himself.

The universe is real for us all and dissimilar to each one of us.

She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about you when I first saw you; I felt at once that you weren't like everybody else.

the cattleyas especially (these being, with chrysanthemums, her favourite flowers), because they had the supreme merit of not looking in the least like other flowers, but of being made, apparently, out of scraps of silk or satin.

to me a new book was not one of a number of similar objects, but was like an individual man, unmatched, and with no cause of existence beyond himself [...]

A book is no mere book anymore than man can be mere man. A book was like an individual man, unmatched and with no cause of existence beyond himself.