“The original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.François René de Chateaubriand
“Be regular and orderly in your life like a bourgeois, so that you may be violent and original in your work.Gustave Flaubert
“Even the most perfect reproduction of a work of art is lacking in one element: its presence in time and space, its unique existence at the place where it happens to be…. The presence of the original is the prerequisite to the concept of authenticity.Walter Benjamin
“Men grind and grind in the mill of a truism, and nothing comes out but what was put in. But the moment they desert the tradition for a spontaneous thought, then poetry, wit, hope, virtue, learning, anecdote, all flock to their aid.Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Pereant qui nostra ante nos dixerunt [May they perish who have used our words before us].Anonymous: Latin