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“Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.” Albert Einstein, “The world as I see it” - 1949

“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.” John Green, “Looking for Alaska” - 2005

“I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning . . . but it's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” Lewis Carroll, “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland” - 1865

“You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.” John Green, “The Fault in Our Stars” - 2012

“People like you to be something, preferably what they are.” John Steinbeck, “East of Eden” - 1952

“It doesn't matter what you do . . . so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away.” Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” - 1953

“It's better to always wear the same thing and know that people are liking you for the real you and not the you your clothes make.” Andy Warhol, “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol” - 1975

“A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.” Oscar Wilde, “The Soul of Man under Socialism” - 1891

“our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.” Marcel Proust, “Swann's Way” - 1913

“I won’t subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind.” Jack London, “Martin Eden” - 1909

“Some men, under the pressure of incarceration, showed true mettle, while others revealed themselves as less than what they had appeared to be.” Nelson Mandela, “Long Walk to Freedom” - 1995

“To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth, must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient.” Malcolm X, “The Autobiography of Malcolm X” - 1965

“Hair is vitally personal to children. They weep vigorously when it is cut for the first time; no matter how it grows, bushy, straight or curly, they feel they are being shorn of a part of their personality.” Charlie Chaplin, “My Autobiography” - 1964

“His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.” Terry Pratchett, “Guards! Guards!” - 1989

“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

“For the first time in his life, a teacher was pointing out things that Ender had not already seen for himself. For the first time, Ender had found a living mind he could admire.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“maybe she loved mysteries so much that she became one.” John Green, “Paper Towns” - 2008

“If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Great Gatsby” - 1925

“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.” J. D. Salinger, “Franny and Zooey” - 1961

“never in my entire childhood did I feel like a child. I felt like a person all along—the same person that I am today.” Orson Scott Card, “Ender's Game” - 1985

“Your handwriting. The way you walk. Which china pattern you choose. It’s all giving you away. Everything you do shows your hand. Everything is a self-portrait. Everything is a diary.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Diary” - 2003

“Each person feels the pain in his own way, each has his own scars.” Haruki Murakami, “Kafka on the Shore” - 2002

“Harry Potter was a highly unusual boy in many ways.” J. K. Rowling, “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban” - 1999

“I am what I am: an individual, unique and different, with a lineal history of ancestral promptings and urgings; a history of dreams, desires, and of special experiences, of all of which I am the sum total.” Charlie Chaplin, “My Autobiography” - 1964

“Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn’t a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their own song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our...” Neil Gaiman, “Anansi Boys” - 2005

“He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality, marking vulnerable points.” Ayn Rand, “Atlas Shrugged” - 1957

“Anymore, no one’s mind is their own.” Chuck Palahniuk, “Lullaby” - 2002

“It’s her general air of being some one in particular that strikes me.” Henry James, “The Portrait of a Lady” - 1881

“I wouldn't change you for the world. You're sweet the way you are. The things that'll make you fail I'll love always—the living in the past, the lazy days and nights you have, and all your carelessness and generosity.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, “Flappers and Philosophers” - 1920

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