Quotes about Individuality

I gave up apologizing for myself a long time ago. What should I say? That I'm sorry to be that which I am?

The girls emerged in their carboncopy dresses and the boy came out of the woods stiffly and looking churlish and sullen and strange, like a child pervert.

We're all of us pretty much an assemblage of memories.

It may even be that everybody starts out fairly unique only most people get over it. Come

Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God created you to be.

She herself had never been able to be altogether herself: it had been denied her.

Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that

The living self has one purpose only: to come into its own fullness of being.

She was nobody, there was no reality in herself, the reality was all outside of her, and she must apply herself to it.

You can't lose yourself, neither in woman nor humanity nor in God. You've always got yourself on your hands in the end: and a very raw and jaded and humiliated and nervous-neurasthenic self it is, too, in the end.

Connie woke up to the existence of legs. They became more important to her than faces, which are no longer very real.

What we mean is that people may go on, keep on, and rush on, without souls. They have their ego and their will, that is enough to keep them going.