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"The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels."
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"Be different. Be original. Nobody will remember a specific flower in a garden filled with thousands of the same yellow flower, but they will remember the one that managed to change its color to purple."

"Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague."

"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."

"Everyone is looking for the sure thing. They are looking to hedge their bet. They think the way to do that is to go with a proven quantity, a remake of something you have already seen. That is their mindset."

"Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with."
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"When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior."

"Symbolism did not fall out of heaven or rise out of subterranean depths: it was elaborated like language, by the human reality."

"One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion."

"Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines."

"There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light of reason - and of our own desires."

"Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying."

"Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she is said to imitate the male."
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