Uniqueness of each person

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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

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Uniqueness of each person

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Lorraine Hansberry

Medium

Personal journal

Language

English

Time

1962 1960s 20th century

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Hansberry, Lorraine. Diary entry. 1 May 1962.

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

David Foster Wallace

Infinite Jest

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Uniqueness of each person

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David Foster Wallace

Source

Infinite Jest

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Paradox

Language

English

Time

1996 1990s 20th century

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Wallace, David Foster. Infinite Jest. Little, Brown and Company, 1996.

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

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Uniqueness of each person

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Bill

Author

Stephen Chbosky

Source

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Medium

Novel

Genre

Young adult

Statement Type

Compliment

Language

English

Time

1999 1990s 20th century

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Chbosky, Stephen. The Perks of Being a Wallflower. Pocket Books, 1999.

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.

Hermann Hesse

Demian

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Interconnectedness of all things Uniqueness of each person

Author

Hermann Hesse

Source

Demian

Medium

Novel

Genre

Coming of age story

Language

German

Time

1919 1910s 20th century

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Original Citation

Hesse, Herman. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend [Demian: The Story of Emil Sinclair's Youth]. Fischer Verlag, 1919.

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Hesse, Herman. Demian, translated by Damion Searls. Penguin Classics, 2013.

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.

Oliver Sacks

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Uniqueness of each person The individual

Author

Oliver Sacks

Source

The New York Times

Medium

Newspaper

Language

English

Time

2015 2010s 21st century

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Sacks, Oliver. "My Own Life." The New York Times, 19 Feb. 2015.

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

William Shakespeare

Sonnet 84

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William Shakespeare

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Sonnet 84 Shakespeare's Sonnets

Medium

Sonnet Poem

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English

Time

1609 1600s 17th century

Era

European Renaissance

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Shakespeare, William. Shake-speares Sonnets. London: Thomas Thorpe, 1609, sonnet 84, I. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Sonnets." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, sonnet 84.

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

Before Sunset

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Uniqueness of each person

Speaker

Celine

Actor

Julie Delpy

Source

Before Sunset

Medium

Film

Genre

Romantic drama (film) Drama (film) Romantic drama Drama

Language

English

Time

2004 2000s 21st century

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Before Sunset. Directed by Richard Linklater, Castle Rock Entertainment/ Detour Filmproduction/Columbia Pictures, 2004.

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

William Hazlitt

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Uniqueness of each person

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William Hazlitt

Source

Characteristics

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1823 1820s 19th century

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Hazlitt, William. Characteristics: In the Manner of Rochefoucault's Maxims. London, 1823, no. 305.

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.

Viktor Frankl

Man's Search for Meaning

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Vocation Uniqueness of each person

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Viktor Frankl

Source

Man's Search for Meaning

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

German

Time

1946 1940s 20th century

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Frankl, Victor. …trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Ein Psychologe erlebt das Konzentrationslager [Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy]. Verlag für Jugend und Volk, 1946.

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Frankl, Victor. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 2006.