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"A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood."
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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 am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful."

"Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me."

"German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it's almost like a meeting."

"Self-control means wanting to be effective at some random point in the infinite radiations of my spiritual existence."
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