"'Am I cured?'
'No. You're someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.'
'Is wanting to be different a serious illness?'
'It is if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else: it causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. It's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests, He did not create a single leaf the same as another. But you think it's mad to be different and that's why you chose to live in Villete, because everyone is different here, and so you appear to be the same as everyone else. Do you understand?'"
- Paolo Coelho, 'Veronika Decides To Die'
'No. You're someone who is different, but who wants to be the same as everyone else. And that, in my view, is a serious illness.'
'Is wanting to be different a serious illness?'
'It is if you force yourself to be the same as everyone else: it causes neuroses, psychoses, and paranoia. It's a distortion of nature, it goes against God's laws, for in all the world's woods and forests, He did not create a single leaf the same as another. But you think it's mad to be different and that's why you chose to live in Villete, because everyone is different here, and so you appear to be the same as everyone else. Do you understand?'"
- Paolo Coelho, 'Veronika Decides To Die'
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