#separateness

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise. ↗

— Robert Frost

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Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#integrity #love #love is #oneself #outside

Respect... is appreciation of the separateness of the other person, of the ways in which he or she is unique. ↗

— Annie Gottlieb

#other #person #respect #separateness #she

I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own totality, of his own separateness, of his own individuality. ↗

— Barnett Newman

#feeling #giving #his #hope #i

I must know, he thinks. It must be clear to me. There is a world which is closed to him, a world of shadings, gradations, nuances, and subtleties. He is a genius and yet he is too explicit. June slips between his fingers. You cannot posses without loving. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#genius #genius-separateness #love #love