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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces , boundaries, shape destinies , societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality , creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory it too good.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.

I don’t owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

He’s a man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.