"And truly it demands something godlike in him who cast off the common motives of humanity and ventured to trust himself for a taskmaster."
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"The power of the individual is as powerful as the universe is infinite."
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"The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other."
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"A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service."
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"But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences."
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"Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do."
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"The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God."
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"Consciousness makes the individual careful to maintain his own existence; and if this were not so, there would be no surety for the preservation of the species. From all this it is clear that individuality is not a form of perfection, but rather a limitation; and so to be freed from it is not loss but gain."
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"Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon."
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"Liberty is to the collective body, what health is to every individual body. Without health no pleasure can be tasted by man; without liberty, no happiness can be enjoyed by society."
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"The best thing you've got going for you is individuality."
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"I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big."
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"Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it."
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"If you come to fame not understanding who you are, it will define who you are."
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"In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to others. There is a greater fullness of life about his own existence, and when there is more life in the units there is more in the mass which is composed of them."
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"There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him."
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"So far as I am concerned, poetry and every other art was, is, and forever will be strictly and distinctly a question of individuality."
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"Individuality is very important for a full human life."
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"The individual is the central, rarest, most precious capital resource of our society."
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"Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself."
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