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- All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth.
- We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
- And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than…
- This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.
- With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.
- It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same…
- All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds…
- Theater of Cruelty means a theater difficult and cruel for myself first of all. And, on the level of performance, it is not the cruelty…
- So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its…
- And war is wonderful, isn't it? For it's war, isn't it, that the Americans have been preparing for and are preparing for this way step…
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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