“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.”
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Oscar Wilde812
Irish writer and poet 1854–1900Related quotes
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: Black Blood
“I can't explain why I shine and no one else shines. I think everybody shines in different things.”
Tupac Shakur (1971–1996) rapper and actor
1990s, Interview on the set of Gang Related (1996)
“Why can't I be different and original, like everybody else?”
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“[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.”
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Wallace Stevens (1879–1955) American poet
"The Figure of the Youth as Virile Poet"
The Necessary Angel (1951)
Context: It may be dismissed, on the one hand, as a commonplace aesthetic satisfaction: and, on the other hand, if we say that the idea of God is merely a poetic idea, even if the supreme poetic idea, and that our notions of heaven and hell are merely poetry not so called, even if poetry that involves us vitally, the feeling of deliverance, of a release, of a perfection touched, of a vocation so that all men may know the truth and that the truth may set them free — if we say these things and if we are able to see the poet who achieved God and placed Him in His seat in heaven in all His glory, the poet himself, still in the ecstasy of the poem that completely accomplished its purpose, would have seemed, whether young or old, whether in rags or ceremonial robe, a man who needed what he had created, uttering the hymns of joy that followed his creation. This may be a gross exaggeration of a very simple matter. But perhaps the same is true of many of the more prodigious things of life and death.
Rand Paul (1963) American politician, ophthalmologist, and United States Senator from Kentucky
4 February 2019 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-hCP5Tp4Nw, excerpt from 5 February 2019 article on Reason https://reason.com/blog/2019/02/05/rand-paul-criticizes-bipartisan-support, there is a full transcript https://votesmart.org/public-statement/1319881/strengthening-americas-security-in-the-middle-east-act-of#.XKGWiJhKjIU from VoteSmart's list of his public statements https://votesmart.org/candidate/public-statements/117285/rand-paul <br class="br">2019
