Remember that all the others are more afraid than you

You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you.

I think if you study — if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else.

It reminds her of those dreadful sorts who used to go around announcing “I’m a people person,” as though one had another choice.

Because when you engage in the same things as the masses, you lower yourself to their level.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

This may be the curse of human race . Not that we are different from one anther , but we are so alike .

According to one influential wing of modern secular society there are few more disreputable fates than to end up being 'like everyone else' for 'everyone else' is a category that comprises the mediocre and the conformist, the boring and the suburban. The goal of all right-thinking people should be to mark themselves off from the crowd and 'stand out' in whatever way their talents allow.

Listen: you are not yourself, you are crowds of others, you are as leaky a vessel as was ever made, you have spent vast amounts of your life as someone else, as people who died long ago, as people who never lived, as strangers you never met.

You must be like me; you must suffer in rhythm.

You did things you didn't hope to do. You have not always been your best self. This means that you're like the rest of us.

As for the fear, you'll have to put up with that like the rest of us.

Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.

The assumption that you everyone else is like you. That you are the world. The disease of consumer capitalism. The complacent solipsism.