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"I don't really want to become normal, average, standard. I want merely to gain in strength, in the courage to live out my life more fully, enjoy more, experience more. I want to develop even more original and more unconventional traits."
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"Don't jump on the bandwagon just because everyone's doing so."
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"As plants do not grow in the dark, never allow yourself to be in someone's shadow."
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"You are not here to be somebody's shadow; you are here to be the light."
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"Each human being is unique, each with their own qualities, instincts, forms of pleasure, and desire for adventure. However, society always imposes on us a collective ways of behaving, and people never stop to wonder why they should behave like that. They just accept it, the way typists accepted the fact that the QWERTY keyboard was the best possible one. Have you ever met anyone is your entire life who asked why the hands of a clock should go in one particular direction and not the other?"
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"In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and children, each with his or her inborn idiosyncrasies of mind and body, and all trying (or becoming compelled) to squeeze their biological diversities into the uniformity of some cultural mold."
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"Life is too short as we all know it to be. So why dare to spend it trying to live up to other people's worldly expectations of you?"
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"There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity."
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"The most interesting people are the unusual. No one writes about or discusses the average, the ordinary, or the common; they write about and discuss the weird, the mad and the different, so if you are one, even though the opinions of others are of no importance, you are, in their eyes, significant enough to notice and remember."
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"Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different."
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"You've probably missed out something really great but you haven't let that drive you insane but always remember to be yourself."
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"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."
Creativity
"I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy."
Creativity
"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."
Freedom
"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
Woman
"The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle."
Dream
"Dreams pass into the reality of action. From the actions stems the dream again; and this interdependence produces the highest form of living."
Life
"Dreams are necessary to life."
Life
"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."
Dream
"What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?"
Friendship
"When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others."
Empathy
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