"most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation".

I hate to admit how true this sentence is. I've always wished I was born a few hundred years earlier where people had the freedom to create without having to worry about something being original or not. But then again, if this act of 'mimicry' makes the old things better, what is so wrong about it? Why do we reject it so much? I know I do.

If you were the first, whatever you do wouldn't be mimicry.

Is it really mimicry if we didn't have the intention of doing so?