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- I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.
- We are all engaged in the task of peeling off the false selves, the programmed selves, the selves created by our families, our culture, our…
- The value of the personal relationship to all things is that it creates intimacy and intimacy creates understanding and understanding creates love.
- I am apparently gentle, unstable, and full of pretenses. I will die a poet killed by the nonpoets, will renounce no dream, resign myself to no…
- The source of sexual power is curiosity, passion. You are watching its little flame die of asphyxiation. Sex does not thrive on monotony. Without feeling,…
- I gathered poets around me and we all wrote beautiful erotica. As we were condemned to focus only on sensuality, we had violent explosions of…
- Keeping a Diary all my life helped me to discover some basic elements essential to the vitality of writing.
- The true liberation of eroticism lies in accepting the fact that there are a million facets to it, a million forms of eroticism, a million…
- It is possible I never learned the names of birds in order to discover the bird of peace, the bird of paradise, the bird of…
- In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place…
- The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing…
- I have an attitude now that is immovable. I shall remain outside of the world, beyond the temporal, beyond all the organizations of the world.…
- One handles truths like dynamite. Literature is one vast hypocrisy, a giant deception, treachery. All writers have concealed more than they revealed.
- The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
- It's all right for a woman to be, above all, human. I am a woman first of all.
- If all of us acted in unison as I act individually there would be no wars and no poverty. I have made myself personally responsible…
- There is not one big cosmic meaning for all, there is only the meaning we each give to our life, an individual meaning, an individual…
- In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place…
- The same chemicals were used in the cooking as were used on the composition of her own being: only those which caused the most violent…
- What we call our destiny is truly our character and that character can be altered. The knowledge that we are responsible for our actions and…
- All that is sacred and taboo in the world are meaningless.
- Not afraid of poverty and drabness and who is untouched by it, untouched by the drunkenness of her friends; (she) who judges, selects, discards people…
- All those who try to unveil the mysteries always have tragic lives. At the end they are always punished.
- Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
- Many couples, many people, are not living with real human beings, but with their ghosts. Who has not followed for years the spell of a…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle