Quotes about Individuality

Every man prays in his own language.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

No matter where you go you are what you are player and you can try to change but that's just the top layer man you was who you was before you got here

The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.

In short, between men and women you want... Equality. Equality! You can't mean it. Man and woman are two different creatures. I said equality. I didn't say identity.

any one who had listened to Courfeyrac in 1828 would have thought he heard Tholomyes in 1817. Only, Courfeyrac was an honourable fellow. Beneath the apparent similarities of the exterior mind, the difference between him and Tholomyes was very great. The latent man which existed in the two was totally different in the first from what it was in the second. There was in Tholomyes a district attorney, and in Courfeyrac a paladin.

Never, even among animals, does the creature born to be a dove change into an osprey. That is only to be seen among men.

It will be perceived that he had a peculiar manner of his own of judging things: I suspect that he obtained it from the Gospel.

And if you couldn't be loved, the next best thing was to be let alone.

I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.

I have no mission. No one has.

He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.