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- Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring…
- It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to…
- There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was…
- In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
- Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps…
- Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as…
- We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the…
- It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
- With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring…
- You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as,…
- To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry…
- He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic…
- We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.
- For all cats have this particularity, each and every one, from the meanest alley sneaker to the proudest, whitest she that ever graced a pontiff's…
- And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a…
- ...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in…
- For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories…
- Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all…
- I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he…
- Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they’re only habits and give no…
- There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.
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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