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"Its awfully hard to know if anything is truly original, anyway. An original thing would be so foreign, we wouldnt be able to recognize it, would we?"
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OriginalityIt is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation. — Originality
"It is better to fail in originality, than to succeed in imitation."
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Originality is the aspect of created or invented works that distinguish them from reproductions, clones, forgeries, or substantially derivative works. The modern idea of originality is according to some scholars tied to Romanticism, by a notion that is often called romantic originality. The validity of "originality" as an operational concept has been questioned. For example, there is no clear boun
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"The fact is that originality (unless in minds of very unusual force) is by no means a matter, as some suppose, of impulse or intuition. In general, to be found, it must be elaborately sought, and although a positive merit of the highest class, demands in its attainment less of invention than negation."
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"Many people ... go through life with hardly an original thought; gravitate from one pleasure or amusement to another; gain a livelihood doing what someone else has assigned; flee boredom as best they can; marry and beget children; and then, without having made the slightest difference of any unique significance, die and decay like any animal."
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"The test of the originality for an idea is not the absence of one single predecessor but the presence of multiple but incompatible ones."
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"True originality is not to be reached by striving after it. A man is original or he is not, as it happens, and as Heaven pleases; but, if he be original, he will be so without knowing it, and his originality will be shown in what we call the whole man, not in an assumed and startling vesture."
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