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"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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"He got why Eleanor tried so hard to look different. Sort of. It was because she was different - because she wasn't afraid to be."
"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?"
"I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16 I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining."
"She said my glasses made me look like a butch jock's locker room bitch."
"The world doesn't celebrate your similarity but your difference."
"Dare to be different."
"Nothing is more ridiculous than one person telling another how to live."
"Seniority has nothing to do with intellectuality, your individuality wins the majority or minority, simply because you maintained the status quo of your peculiarity."
"You've probably missed out something really great but you haven't let that drive you insane but always remember to be yourself."
"No man is ordinary, only their performances are ordinary."
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"When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive."
"Infancy is the perpetual Messiah, which comes into the arms of fallen men, and pleads with them to return to paradise."
"As men's prayers are a disease of the will, so are their creeds a disease of the intellect."
"The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself."
"For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word or a verse and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem. The men of more delicate ear write down these cadences more faithfully, and these transcripts, though imperfect, become the songs of the nations."
"Language is fossil poetry. As the limestone of the continent consists of infinite masses of the shells of animalcules, so language is made up of images, or tropes, which now, in their secondary use, have long ceased to remind us of their poetic origin."
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