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Uniqueness of each person9 quotes
Eventually it comes to you: the thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. — Lorraine Hansberry · 1962Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else. — David Foster Wallace · 1996I just want you to know that you're very special... And the only reason I'm telling you is that I don't know if anyone else ever has. — Stephen Chbosky · 1999Every man is more than just himself; he also represents the unique, the very special and always significant and remarkable point at which the world's phenomena intersect, only once in this way and never again. — Hermann Hesse · 1919There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate—the genetic and neural fate—of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. — Oliver Sacks · 2015Who is it that says most, which can say more
Than this rich praise, that you alone are you. — William Shakespeare · 1609All 9 quotes →The individual1 quote
There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate—the genetic and neural fate—of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death. — Oliver Sacks · 2015Vocation1 quote
Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life; everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyone's task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. — Viktor Frankl · 1946