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“your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.”
“Have you ever played chess, Kitty?”I eyed her. What did a board game have to do with this? “Not really.”“You and I should play sometime. I think you would like it,” she said. “It’s a game of strate...”
“My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots.”
“Once a man strays out of the common herd, he's more likely to meet wolves in the thickets than angels.”
“But these few are the salt of the earth; without them, human life would become a stagnant pool. Not only is it they who introduce good things which did not before exist, it is they who keep the lif...”
“I would like to have nothing to do with you for hours on end and then come back and find you, come back with things I’ve thought and found all on my own— on my own, not through you.”
“There's nothing good about being ordinary. People don't respect you for it. People run after people who are different, who have confidence in their own taste, who don't run with the herd. There is ...”
“Our culture promotes individuality, while the Amish are deeply entrenched in community. To us, if someone stands out, it's no big deal because diversity is respected and expected. To the Amish, the...”
“...at some indiscernible moment he sees all of us clearly — every face distinct, like immiscible droplets of water, all of us individuals constituting an interconnected sea of beings.”
“So you realized that there were always women in tears, or a red-headed man, or something else to spoil your effects?""Yes, naturally.”
“And why, she began to ask, did she rage against individuals? Not individuals but institutions are the enemies, and they most afflict the disciples who the most generously serve them. They insinuate...”
“Why--?" he jerked his thumb in the direction of the young, "when they're so lovely--"She too looked at the girl, who was fastening a flower that had come undone in the front of her frock. She smile...”
“So distracting, so complete is she that she is gone before many realize that she had no escort, she was along, a parade of one.”
“In our own way, in your own way, we are all of us a masterpiece. Everyone is unique.”
“Take a step back and view the world through your eyes, not someone else’s. Listen to your heart and decide what you really want.”
“We are flowers in the field seeking our individuality. We may seem similar but we are all unique, without exception. Everyone is special.”
“The point is that you are an individual inasmuch as you exist in a social matrix of others who respect your individuality and your right to make choices. That's concrete individuality: an individua...”
“Never compare your insides to someone else's outsides.”
“The fertilising conflict of individualities is the ultimate meaning of the personal life.”
“Because I’m not normal,” I said.“You say that as if it’s a bad thing, Percy. But you don’t realize how important you are.”
