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9 quotes

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Topic·Uniqueness of each person✕clear

Personal journal

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

1962

★ 5.3

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest · 1996

★ 3.7

Novel · Young adult

I 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

The Perks of Being a Wallflower · 1999

★ 3.6

Novel · Coming of age story

Every 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.

Demian · 1919

★ 3.5

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.

2015

★ 3.5

Who is it that says most, which can say more Than this rich praise, that you alone are you.

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 84 · 1609

★ 2.1

Film · Romantic drama (film) · Drama (film) · Romantic drama · Drama

You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details.

Before Sunset · 2004

★ 2.0

Every man, in his own opinion, forms an exception to the ordinary rules of morality.

William Hazlitt

1823

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

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.

Man's Search for Meaning · 1946

★ 1.9