#dual

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#reflection #individuality

The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#individuality

Everyone, either from modesty or egotism, hides away the best and most delicate of his soul’s possessions; to gain the esteem of others, we must only ever show our ugliest sides; this is how we keep ourselves on the common level ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#individuality #mediocrity #soul #individuality

Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is a patchwork of occurrences, of discontinuous events roughly sewn together: The parts I remember, I remember precisely, whilst other sections seemed to have vanished completely. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#individuality

I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me. ↗

— John Lennon

#individuality #individuality

Everyone marries the Duke of Westminster. There are a lot of duchesses, but only one Coco Chanel. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#rarity #royalty #individuality

Society does not consist of individuals, but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand. ↗

— Karl Marx

#social-structure #society #economy

She was looking for something I could never give her." Again his dark eyes bored into Julia's mind. "You have something of the same about you, young woman. Take my advice: Don't think you will find it in another person. You won't. It's not there. You must find it in yourself. ↗

— Iain Pears

#individuality #search #self-awareness #self-reliance #dreams

The unique must be fulfilled. ↗

— Martha Graham

#originality #originality

Our findings with reference to organized crime was that organized crime as an entity didn't participate in the assassination of the president. However, we were unable to preclude the possibility of individual members of organized crime having participated. ↗

— Louis Stokes

#crime #entity #findings #having #however