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"People like us are dead to society unless we're pretentious, tell people what they want to hear, take off our clothes, or pretend to be like them."
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"It's everybody, I mean. Everything everybody does is so - I don't know - not wrong, or even mean, or even stupid necessarily. But just so tiny and meaningless and - sad-making. And the worst part is, if you go bohemian or something crazy like that, you're conforming just as much only in a different way."
"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
"Putting your time in at the office; dutifully spawning your two point five; smiling politely at your retirement party; then chewing on your bedsheet and choking on your canned peaches at the nursing home. It was better never to have been born-never to have wanted anything, never to have hoped for anything."
"Most people are as happy as other people decide they should be."
"I enjoy being a lemming,we line up to do everything together."
"Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream."
"Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're going."
"The problem with the 'herd' is that our voice is never 'heard'."
"Whatever you may be sure of be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people."
"Conformity is often more dangerous than war. War destroys the body but confomity destoys the imaginative mind."
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"The only time she has anything resembling a life is when she sleeps because when she sleeps she can dream."
"Soul mates may be linked, but fight to separate, causing wounds and confusion. They teach what no one else can."
"His ghost comes back to be remembered. If he can't be in this life, he procures a way to stay in orbit, and in that way, is never forgotten."
"Society nowadays tells people that their happiness is all that matters but happiness is never found if it costs someone else's theirs. That is not what happiness is, nor would such a person deserve it, because happiness is forged by the setting aside of self and in doing for others to make them happy first and foremost, so if you have to hurt another human being to "find your happiness, then you have no clue what the word actually means or what it's willing to do, and in being so self-centered and entitled, it's veritably tragic that the only care and concern you have is for yourself."
"You can shoo people away in real life, but not when they force their way in through the dream door."
"Grab tightly to the reigns of passion and ride into glory for without it life would be stagnant and you would be a spirit without cause."
"A friendship has but one chief adversary and that is envy. It is sired by resentment with the potential consequence of unresolved estrangement." She looked at the woman in conflict and said, "Do not envy her but imagine what it took for her to have what you resent her for. Would you want to embark upon her journey instead of your own to procure it? You notice her abundance but overlook her losses; do not envy her because she would rather have your friendship than your envy." The woman looked at her and nodded in accord, "And how do you do that?" she asked. The woman sighed in reflective thought. "By changing the way you think."
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