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"If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything."
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"Don't jump on the bandwagon just because everyone's doing so."
"As plants do not grow in the dark, never allow yourself to be in someone's shadow."
"You are not here to be somebody's shadow; you are here to be the light."
"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."
"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?"
"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."
"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."
"Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different."
"You've probably missed out something really great but you haven't let that drive you insane but always remember to be yourself."
"The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character."
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"If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything."
"Upon the clothes behind the tenement, That hang like ghosts suspended from the lines, Linking each flat, but to each indifferent, Incongruous and strange the moonlight shines."
"Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed."
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