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- The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
- The summer has seized you, as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw lemons as large as your desk-side globe-that miniature map of the world-and…
- Everyone in me is a bird I am beating all my wings
- All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life,…
- All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.
- Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.
- Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there,…
- Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know…
- And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost? Once I was…
- She suffers according to the digits of my hate. I hear the filaments of alabaster. I would lie down with them and lift my madness…
- Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter.…
- Then all this became history. Your hand found mine. Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot. Oh, my carpenter, the fingers are rebuilt.…
- The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she peered…
- It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious
- I tell you what you’ll never really know: all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as these struck leaves…
- If I could blame it on all the mothers and fathers of the world, they of the lessons, the pellets of power, they of the…
- I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe…
- But what can be done gull gull when you turn the sun on again, a dead fruit and all that flies today is crooked and…
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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