#originality

You think of yourself as a citizen of the universe. You think you belong to this world of dust and matter. Out of this dust you have created a personal image, and have forgotten about the essence of your true origin ↗

— Rumi

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Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality. ↗

— Jackie Chan

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Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script. ↗

— Douglas Wood

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No art form points like poetry to this originality of language as to its essential and abiding concern. ↗

— Thomas Harrison

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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar. ↗

— Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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As a rule, I am very careful to be shallow and conventional where depth and originality are wasted. ↗

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

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The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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