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"An excellent but an eccentric man in whom the least little thing would, it seemed, often check the flow of his spirits and divert the current of his thoughts."
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"I'd rather be interesting, original, & unique then follow the pack. Revel in who you truly are & be liberated!"
"The world says fit in, the universe says stand out."
"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."
"You've probably missed out something really great but you haven't let that drive you insane but always remember to be yourself."
"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?"
"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."
"As plants do not grow in the dark, never allow yourself to be in someone's shadow."
"Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different."
"Don't jump on the bandwagon just because everyone's doing so."
"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."
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"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."
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"... seeking to indicate to her by the extent of his gratitude the corresponding intensity of the pleasures which it was in her power to bestow on him, the supreme pleasure being to guarantee him immunity, for as long as his love should last and he remain vulnerable, from the assaults of jealousy."
"It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is why, so very often the weight of the past lies ineluctably upon the present. But that is why it is so real in memory, so wholly itself, so far beyond replacement."
"Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things."
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us."
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