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“She can't have understood you: you are so utterly different from ordinary men. That's what I liked about you when I first saw you; I felt at once that you weren't like everybody else.” Marcel Proust, “Swann's Way” - 1913

“If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.” Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World” - 1932

“stay insane, but behave like normal people. Run the risk of being different, but learn to do so without attracting attention.” Paulo Coelho, “Veronika Decides to Die” - 1998

“If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other.” Muhammad Ali, “The Soul of a Butterfly” - 2004

“By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.” Confucius, “Analects”

“Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one.” George Orwell, “1984” - 1949

“You’re someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.” Paulo Coelho, “Veronika Decides to Die” - 1998

“We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans, all have different names, but they all contain water.” Muhammad Ali, “The Soul of a Butterfly” - 2004

“We look up at the same stars, and see such different things.” George R. R. Martin, “A Storm of Swords” - 2000

“the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.” L. Frank Baum, “The Marvelous Land of Oz” - 1904

“No nation every loses its dignity or its good standing by conciliating its differences, and by exercising great patience with, and consideration for, the rights of other nations.” Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Quarantine Speech” - 5 October 1937

“Everybody’s born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside.” Haruki Murakami, “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle” - 1997

“Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and truth.” Mahatma Gandhi, “The Story of my Experiments with Truth” - 1929

“Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.” Blaise Pascal, “Pensées” - 1670

“Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor morum over each other.” Thomas Jefferson, “Notes on the State of Virginia” - 1785

“You may be as different as the sun and the moon, but the same blood flows through both your hearts.” George R. R. Martin, “A Game of Thrones” - 1996

“We all live in our own world. But if you lookup at the starry sky, you’ll see that all the different worlds up there combine to form constellations, solar systems, galaxies.” Paulo Coelho, “Veronika Decides to Die” - 1998

“It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to...” Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Scarlet Letter” - 1850

“The queerness doesn't matter, so long as they're friends” L. Frank Baum, “The Road to Oz” - 1909

“If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?” Chuck Palahniuk, “Fight Club” - 1996

“I stared because their faces, so different, so similar, were all devastatingly, inhumanly beautiful.” Stephenie Meyer, “Twilight” - 2005

“And we would all try to do it in our heads, and all arrive at different results, and sneer at one another.” Jerome K. Jerome, “Three Men in a Boat” - 1889

“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” - 2000

“We walked to meet each other up to the time of our love, and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions. And there's no altering that.” Leo Tolstoy, “Anna Karenina” - 1877

“It were not best that we should all think alike; it is difference of opinion that makes horse-races.” Mark Twain, “Pudd'nhead Wilson” - 1894

“The great source of both the misery and disorders of human life, seems to arise from over-rating the difference between one permanent situation and another.” Adam Smith, “The Theory of Moral Sentiments” - 1759

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J. K. Rowling (1)
George Orwell (1)
Aldous Huxley (1)
Mahatma Gandhi (1)
Adam Smith (1)
Confucius (1)
Leo Tolstoy (1)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (1)
Jerome K. Jerome (1)
Thomas Jefferson (1)
Haruki Murakami (1)
Chuck Palahniuk (1)
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1)
Stephenie Meyer (1)

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Veronika Decides to Die (3)
The Soul of a Butterfly (2)
Pensées (2)
A Game of Thrones (1)
1984 (1)
Brave New World (1)
The Story of my Experiments with Truth (1)
Analects (1)
Anna Karenina (1)
The Scarlet Letter (1)
Three Men in a Boat (1)
Notes on the State of Virginia (1)
Fight Club (1)
Quarantine Speech (1)
Twilight (1)
Swann's Way (1)
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (1)
Pudd'nhead Wilson (1)
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (1)
A Storm of Swords (1)