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You're beautiful, but you're empty...One couldn't die for you. Of course, an ordinary passerby would think my rose looked just like you. But my rose, all on her own, is more important than all of you together, since she's the one I've watered. Since she's the one I put under glass, since she's the one I sheltered behind the screen. Since she's the one for whom I killed the caterpillars (except the two or three butterflies). Since she's the one I listened to when she complained, or when she boasted, or even sometimes when she said nothing at all. Since she's my rose.
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love
inspirational
roses
caring
uniqueness
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.
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uniqueness
respect
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Hermann Hesse |
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I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.
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individuality
strength
liberty
uniqueness
human-nature
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Henry David Thoreau |
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Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why? Because so many girls are wonderful. I imagine hundreds of men have called their loves wonderful today, and it's only noon. You couldn't be something that hundreds of others are.
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uniqueness
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.
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uniqueness
self-image
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Max Lucado |
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So the fact that I'm me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.
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independence
hurt
uniqueness
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Haruki Murakami |
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I don't fit into any stereotypes. And I like myself that way.
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stereotypes
self-knowledge
individuality
self-awareness
inspirational-attitude
inspirational-quotes
inspirational
fitting-in
uniqueness
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C. JoyBell C. |
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That is the one unforgivable sin in any society. Be different and be damned!
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uniqueness
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Margaret Mitchell |
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For millions of years flowers have been producing thorns. For millions of years sheep have been eating them all the same. And it's not serious, trying to understand why flowers go to such trouble to produce thorns that are good for nothing? It's not important, the war between the sheep and the flowers? It's no more serious and more important than the numbers that fat red gentleman is adding up? Suppose I happen to know a unique flower, one that exists nowhere in the world except on my planet, one that a little sheep can wipe out in a single bite one morning, just like that, without even realizing what he'd doing - that isn't important? If someone loves a flower of which just one example exists among all the millions and millions of stars, that's enough to make him happy when he looks at the stars. He tells himself 'My flower's up there somewhere...' But if the sheep eats the flower, then for him it's as if, suddenly, all the stars went out. And that isn't important?
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war
stars
love
thorns
roses
sheep
importance
uniqueness
longing
protection
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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If we wish to know about a man, we ask 'what is his story--his real, inmost story?'--for each of us is a biography, a story. Each of us is a singular narrative, which is constructed, continually, unconsciously, by, through, and in us--through our perceptions, our feelings, our thoughts, our actions; and, not least, our discourse, our spoken narrations. Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives--we are each of us unique.
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individuality
humanity
human-condition
uniqueness
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Oliver Sacks |
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He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.
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uniqueness
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J.K. Rowling |
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I'm an oddity of one, my strangeness too complicated to explain or share.
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individuality
quirks
gemma-doyle
libba-bray
uniqueness
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Libba Bray |
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When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.
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uniqueness
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Louis L'Amour |
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To be oneself, simply oneself, is so amazing and utterly unique an experience that it's hard to convince oneself so singular a thing happens to everybody.
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self
uniqueness
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Simone de Beauvoir |
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From childhood's hour I have not been As others were - I have not seen As others saw - I could not bring My passions from a common spring -
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loneliness
uniqueness
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Edgar Allan Poe |
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The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.
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similarities
difference
uniqueness
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James Baldwin |
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She was unique: there was something abnormal about her, and it was that abnormal something that made her magnetic.
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beauty
uniqueness
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Ken Follett |
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[E]ach of our voices has something unique to say. Not only should I not mold my life to the demands of external conformity; I can't even find the model by which to live outside myself. I can only find it within.
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individuality
individuals
self
uniqueness
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Charles Taylor |
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There is a certain way of being human that is way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for .
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life
individuals
self
uniqueness
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Charles Taylor |
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Millions of people can draw. Art is whether there is a scream in you wanting to get out in a special way.
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special
talent
uniqueness
creativity
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Chaim Potok |
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Often we want to be somewhere other than where we are, to even to be someone other than who we are. We tend to compare ourselves constantly with others and wonder why we are not as rich, as intelligent, as simple, as generous, or as saintly as they are. Such comparisons make us feel guilty, ashamed, or jealous. It is very important to realize that our vocation is hidden in where we are and who we are. We are unique human beings, each with a call to realize in life what nobody else can, and to realize it in the concrete context of the here and now. We will never find our vocations by trying to figure out whether we are better or worse than others. We are good enough to do what we are called to do. Be yourself!
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vocation
uniqueness
comparison
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Henri J.M. Nouwen |
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She had something that is gone from the world, from the female world. A sweetness without sentimentality, a limpidity without naivety. She was so easy to hurt, to tease. And when she teased, it was like a caress.
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description
uniqueness
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John Fowles |
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If the chick is not able to break the shell of his egg, he will die without being born. We are - chick. The world - is our egg. If we do not break the shell of the world, then we will die without being born
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uniqueness-of-individual
uniqueness-quotes
uniqueness
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Hermann Hesse |
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Thinking, he walked ever more slowly and asked himself, What is it now that you were hoping to learn from doctrines and teachers, and what is it that they--who taught you so much--were unable to teach you? And, he decided, It was the Self whose meaning and nature I wished to learn. It was the Self I wished to escape from, wished to overcome. But I was unable to overcome it, I could only trick it, could only run away from it and hide. Truly, not a single thing in all the world has so occupied my thoughts as this Self of mine, this riddle: that I am alive and that I am One, am different and separate from all others, that I am Siddhartha! And there is not a thing in the world about which I know less than about myself, about Siddhartha!
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self-knowledge
uniqueness
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Hermann Hesse |
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But you possess one quality that no one else does. Oh? Your identity. Your history, deeds and situation. Use those to shape your creation and you will produce something unique. Whatever you make, base it upon that which is most important to you. Only then will it have depth and meaning, and only then will it resonate with others.
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meaning
history-of-oneself
resonance
self
uniqueness
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Christopher Paolini |
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His unique skill had always been to absorb the talents and knowledge of others, use what he needed and discard the rest. He never allowed anyone to get to close. He kept the world at arm's length in order to look down on it.
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talents
skill
uniqueness
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Christopher Fowler |
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Diuen que cada floc de neu es diferent. Si aixo fos cert, com podria el mon anar endavant? Com podriem aixecar-nos de les nostres genuflexions? Com podriem recuperar-nos d'una meravella aixi? Oblidant. No podem tenir massa coses al cap. Nomes existeix el present i no hi ha res per a recordar.
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present
uniqueness
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Jeanette Winterson |
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As soon as another person becomes important to us, so that we feel in our lives the gravitational pull of his existence, we are to a certain extent astonished by his individuality. From time to time we pause in his presence, and allow the incomprehensible fact of his being in the world to dawn on us. And if we love him and trust him, and feel the comfort of his companionship, then our sentiment, in these moments, is like the sentiment of beauty--a pure endorsement of the other, whose soul shines in his face and gestures as beauty shines in a work of art.
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individuality
love
gravity
uniqueness
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Roger Scruton |
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I feel like the only reason we're able to find some of these unique ideas, characters, and story twists is through discovery. And, by definition, 'discovery' means you don't know the answer when you start.
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uniqueness
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Ed Catmull |