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"I may be no better, but at least I am different."
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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?"

"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."

"I don't care a hang for any cat that hasn't stripes."

"A misfit is like the round peg that cannot fit into the square hole or the running river that just can't stay still."

"Society destroys your individuality, your soul."

"You're entirly bonkers but I'll tell you a secret all the best people are."

"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."

"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."

"The world doesn't celebrate your similarity but your difference."
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"I have resolved on an enterprise that has no precedent and will have no imitator. I want to set before my fellow human beings a man in every way true to nature; and that man will be myself."

"O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it."

"Liberty is like rich food and strong wine: the strong natures accustomed to them thrive and grow even stronger on them; but they deplete, inebriate and destroy the weak."

"The sword wears out its sheath, as it is sometimes said. That is my story. My passions have made me live, and my passions have killed me. What passions, it may be asked. Trifles, the most childish things in the world. Yet they affected me as much as if the possessions of Helen, or the throne of the Universe, had been at stake."
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