I’d never just want to do what everybody else did. I’d be contributing to the sameness of everything.

Our diversity is our strength. What a dull and pointless life it would be if everyone was the same.

Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute.

One more piece of sky in the jigsaw puzzle of our school.

You think of outside your room, of the streets of the town, the lonely little squares over by the station, of those winter Saturdays all alike.

We’re all on different paths but headed in the same direction.

It’s strange being here with you. I hardly know you. But…sometimes it feels like we’re the same person born into two different worlds.

It would be both an identical work of art only by virtue of its difference. The same but different, he suggested, like twins.

We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone MADE equal. Each man man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no...

There is no need to become unique. We already are unique. There is no need to become equal. We already are equal. The greatest tragedies of humankind have come from people trying to force sameness...

He woke once more to external reality, looked round him, knew what he saw- knewit, with a sinking sense of horror and disgust, for the recurrent deliriumof his days and nights, the nightmare of swarming...

Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spreads itself over the world. Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the...

The car was on the FDR drive now and, turning her head, she glanced out at the bleak brown buildings of the projects that stretched for blocks along the drive. Something inside her sank at...

I feared the defining point of this Hell was its unrelenting uniformity, its lack of variation from type. If there was a heaven at the end of this, it must be filled with great variety,...