Quotes in the category exception.
The largest uniqueness of yours is where you are special and differ from others
Is it odd, my love, that I envy others who have not met you for the intoxication they have yet to experience? Is it odd that I wish to witness you with new eyes so I may have the pleasure of falling for you all over again? I am grateful, so grateful, for knowing the meaning of your various sighs. For being the cause of your ecstatic cries. But, if only for a moment, I wish to let you fall out of my hands so that I may catch you again. You, my love, are the oddity. You are my exception.
How is it possible, you ask, for love to be greater than the person who does the loving? That’s because love defies the rules of reason. It is the only exception.
Sometimes we have to wait for years to seek a really exceptional thing. I always wanted to give you the best thing in the world but ...
An exceptional woman with all the desired qualities exists only in a man's imagination.
Let me take once again a rough parable. Suppose I advertised in the papers that I had a place for any one who was too stupid to be a clerk. Probably I should receive no replies; possibly one. Possibly also (nay, probably) it would be from the one man who was not stupid at all. But suppose I had advertised that I had a place for any one who was too clever to be a clerk. My office would be instantly besieged by all the most hopeless fools in the four kingdoms. To advertise for exceptions is simply to advertise for egoists. To advertise for egoists is to advertise for idiots. It is exactly the bore who does think that his case is interesting. It is precisely the really common person who does think that his case is uncommon. It is always the dull man who does think himself rather wild. To ask solely for strange experiences of the soul is simply to let loose all the imbecile asylums about one's ears.
Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.
Virtues are in the popular estimate rather the exception than the rule.
The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception.
To every rule there is an exception—and an idiot ready to demonstrate it. Don't be the one!
There's an exception to every rule, Nora. And you've never failed at being the exception before.
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