"Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."
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"It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . ."
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"Two things are necessary, the development of individuality and the participation of the individual in a truly social life."
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"I was not designed to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest."
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"More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure."
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"It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification"
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"We must cultivate and defend particularity, individuality, and irregularity-life. Human beings do not have a future in the collectivism of bureaucratic states or in the mass society created by capitalism. Every system, by virtue as much of its abstract nature as of its pretension to totality, is the enemy of life. As a forgotten Spanish poet, José Moreno Villa, put it with melancholy wit: "I have discovered in symmetry the root of much iniquity.""
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"Life would be vanilla ice cream without 31 flavors of individuality."
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"Be sure that the ins and outs of your individuality are no mystery to Him; and one day they will no longer be a mystery to you."
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"Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."
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"No one can transcend their own individuality."
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"Perfume is a note of woman's individuality. It is the last touch to her look."
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"Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live."
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"I was looking for myself and asking everyone except myself questions which I, and only I, could answer."
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"Do not resemble me-Never be like a musk melon Cut in two identical halves."
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"Right now the way I define beauty is individuality and wisdom, which I think creates a certain inner confidence. And not confidence in a way that's only on the surface, but a deep-down knowing of yourself or settling into who you are."
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"Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom."
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"The worst curse to befall anyone is stagnation, a banal existence, the quiet desperation that comes out of a need for conformity."
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"Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men."
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"It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality."
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