Famous quotes containing the words single and/or individual:
“Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke (18751926)
“Theres only one way for an individual to remain upright, not to fall to pieces, not to sink into the mire of self-oblivion ... or self-contempt. Thats calmly to turn away from everything, to say, Enough! and, folding ones useless arms across ones empty breast, to retain the ultimate, the sole attainable virtue, the virtue of recognizing ones own insignificance.”
—Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (18181883)