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Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead. -- Jodie Foster
Otherness cannot be a form. For to alter is to deform rather than to form. Therefore, that which is seen in different things can also be seen in and of itself without otherness, since otherness did not give being to it. -- Nicholas of Cusa
Through itself the soul arrives at all harmony that is perceptible in otherness-just as through what is internal the soul arrives at what is external. -- Nicholas of Cusa
To love is to recognize yourself in another. The others "otherness" then stands revealed as an illusion pertaining to the purely human realm, the realm of form. -- Eckhart Tolle
She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world. -- Joanne Harris
The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God -- Charles Williams
Mother of otherness, Eat me. -- Sylvia Plath
All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart. -- Elizabeth Goudge
When each thing is unique in itself, there can be no comparison made.... There is only this strange recognition of present otherness. -- D. H. Lawrence
The pursuit of otherness, the sense that we are somehow different than our brothers and sisters, no matter where we find them, allows for all the other great evils: racism, sexism, homophobia, violence against gay people and against women. -- Anna Quindlen
Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness, my rival, somebody else, I flung the starfish against a stone. Let it perish. -- Sylvia Plath
You know how it is when two souls meet in a burst of ecstatic volubility, with hearts tickling to hear and to tell, to know everything, to reveal everything, the shared reverence for the other's otherness, a feeling of solitude radiantly snapped by full *contact* - all that? -- Martin Amis
And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can repel us initially, but which can jerk us out of our habitual selfishness, and give us intonations of that sacred otherness, which is God. -- Karen Armstrong
The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness, other realities. So the idea of a man exploring what it's like to be a woman doesn't strike me as being that wild or crazy an idea. -- Yann Martel
I'm often asked the same question: What in your work comes from your own culture? As if I have a recipe and I can actually isolate the Arab ingredient, the woman ingredient, the Palestinian ingredient. People often expect tidy definitions of otherness, as if identity is something fixed and easily definable. -- Mona Hatoum
In that moonlit hour, I acquired a sense of the otherness of things. I liked the feeling the moonlight gave me, as if it wasn't the opposite of day, but its underside, its private side, when the fabulous purred on my snow-white sheet like some dark cat come in from the desert. -- Jerry Spinelli
I stood willingly and gladly in the characters of everything - other people, trees, clouds. And this is what I learned, that the world's otherness is antidote to confusion - that standing within this otherness - the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books - can re-dignify the worst-stung heart. -- Mary Oliver
The '60s was the last time when large groups of people in the West searched for alternative modes of being. In a society like India's, which is not fully modern or totally organized, and has a great deal of tolerance for otherness in general, people find the cultural license to try other things, to be whatever they want to be. -- Pankaj Mishra
The beloved is already in our being, as thirst and "otherness." Being is eroticism. Inspiration is that strange voice that takes man out of himself to be every thing that he is, everything that he desires; another body, another being. Beyond, outside of me, in the green and gold thicket, among the tremulous branches, sings the unknown. It calls to me. -- Octavio Paz
Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane, fasten seat-belt, air born, flight, rocking, sun, stars, space, hips of strolling stewardesses, read, sleep, clouds, falling engine speed, descent, circling, touch down, earth, unfasten seat-belt, stairs, airport, immunization book, visa, customs, questions, taxi, streets, houses, people, hotel, key, room, stuffiness, thirst, otherness, foreignness, loneliness, fatigue, life. -- Ryszard Kapuscinski
Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal. -- Meshell Ndegeocello
Death, like the quintessence of otherness, is for others. -- Woodrow Wilson
Enlightenment is the realization of the oneness of being, where otherness disappears. -- Sharon Gannon
The first impression of a work of art is its otherness from reality. -- Susanne Katherina Langer
Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with. -- Julius Gordon
You need a strong sense of 'otherness' to be able to create in your life. -- Amos Lee
Any ideas of 'other' are complicated, and otherness is relative to personal ideas of 'normal.' -- Meshell Ndegeocello
To become a true global citizen, one must abandon all notions of 'otherness' and instead embrace 'togetherness'. -- Suzy Kassem
Countless religious innovators over the years have played the game of establishing an identity for themselves by accentuating their otherness. -- Malcolm Gladwell
It is the low drive for sameness and the hatred of otherness that characterizes all forms of leftism, which inevitably are totalitarian... -- Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
I feel that what you should illustrate is the space between the words. It's the betweenness, the otherness, that gives depth and dimension. -- Brian Froud
I think that is something that I always like in my work - the sense of inclusion rather than the sense of otherness. -- Neil Gaiman
Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils-all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness. -- David Abram
I want my words to open a portal through which the reader may leave the self, migrate to some other human sky and return 'disposed' to otherness. -- Sue Monk Kidd
Writers and painters alike are in the business of consulting their own imaginations, and stimulating the imaginations of others. Together, and separately, they celebrate the absolute mystery of otherness. -- Lynne Truss
God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness. -- David Bentley Hart
I grew up partially around Stone Mountain, Georgia, and in that part of the country, there was always this aura of mythology and palpable sense of otherness about being a Southerner. -- Kara Walker
The childlike, gum-chewing naivete, the glamour rooted in despair, the self-admiring carelessness, the perfected otherness, the wispiness, the shadowy, voyeuristic, vaguely sinister aura, the pale, soft-spoken magical presence, the skin and bones . . . -- Andy Warhol
Black and white is much closer to the condition of dreaming. It links you to the subconscious and I think that was part of the great appeal of movies originally.. this strange otherness. -- John Boorman
I have patches of insomnia, and I'm fascinated by the otherness of the world at night. The stillness. Daytime preoccupations fall away, standards change, thoughts change. It's a canvas for reinvention, I think. -- Morag Joss
Every specific human being, however, thinks, judges, imagines, wills and expresses himself or herself in a unique, dissimilar, and unrepeatable mode--a mode of unpredictable difference, or otherness, which objectively defies description or delimitation. -- Christos Yannaras

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