#originality

People can have lovers..they can have friends..they can be together..but when you think about it..you'll see that originally..we're alone ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#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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Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities. ↗

— Criss Jami

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

— Charles Baudelaire

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The writer of originality, unless dead, is always shocking, scandalous; novelty disturbs and repels. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

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The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships. ↗

— Leo Burnett

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another. ↗

— Voltaire

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Great success in examinations does naturally not as a rule go with originality of thought. ↗

— Edward Carpenter

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Mistakes are the only universal form of originality. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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Because of this, originality consists in returning to the origin. ↗