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Philosophical literature1 quote
What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1882Religious literature1 quote
The original writer is not he who refrains from imitating others, but he who can be imitated by none. — Francois-Rene de Chateaubriand · 1802