In ourselves we harbor the intuition of another evolution, of other possibilities of life. — Abdellatif Laabi Copy Share Image
Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
A writer or painter cannot change the world. But they can keep an essential margin of nonconformity alive. — Luis Bunuel Copy Share Image
Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“I can’t change the world, I can only change how I choose to live in it.” — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
One must never forbid oneself anything. One must also be able to go back, one must always be able to change... — Hans Hartung Copy Share Image
How could I be anything but a dissenter? Who wants the opinion of a group? — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Better Than You island doesn't exist. And if it does it's full of idiots, looking over their shoulder for the next idiot… — David Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Abnormal, adj. Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We were determined by public opinions of us. Would we think we existed without outside confirmation? And how long would we live… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
One of the saddest things about conformity is the ghastly sort of non-conformity it breeds; the noisy protesting, the aggressive rebelliousness, the… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
You should never be afraid to be yourself, under any circumstances. The genre of cool is fleeting. What's cool today will not… — Jaleel White Copy Share Image
I was an onion, layers and layers and layers under a thin, papery skin. If anyone had been able to cut me… — Crescent Dragonwagon Copy Share Image
You spoke about things they couldn't see and so they laughed. Yet to row up the dark river against the current, to… — Giorgos Seferis Copy Share Image
I think when you're an adult you start to like the very things that make you different. If you obsess about some… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
I say, when your hair turns gray and your children think they know who you are, do the thing that shakes up… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“In the antiseptic world we try to purge ourselves of difficult things. Don't dwell on it, switch off the light and go… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
He felt ... a suspicion-no, a conviction-than he had been abandoned, forgotten, and that no one in the whole world cared or… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think,… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
Searching for the self when I was entirely alone was hazardous. What if I found not so much a great emptiness as… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
“My kids are starting to notice I'm a little different from the other dads. "Why don't you have a straight job like… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
In the middle of this it was good to have some moments in which whatever was left of you could sit in… — Philip O Ceallaigh Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a crooked tree and a straight tree. And they grew next to each other. And every… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
That community is already in the process of dissolution where each man begins to eye his neighbor as a possible enemy, where… — Learned Hand Copy Share Image
“The very essence of Australia is our lack of sophistication–our refusal to conform to pretension and superficiality. We ought to be upholding… — Tim Macartney-Snape Copy Share Image
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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