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- All of us are what we have to be and everyone lives the kind of life its in him to live.
- She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part…
- Those were the Rommely women: Mary, the mother, Evy, Sissy, and Katie, her daughters, and Francie, who would grow up to be a Rommely woman…
- Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let…
- It's a beautiful religion and I wish I understood it more. No, I don't want to understand it all. It's beautiful because it's always a…
- Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one…
- All my life I've been lonely. I've been lonely at crowded parties. I've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl and I've been…
- I hate all those flirty-birty games that women make up. Life's too short. If you ever find a man you love, don't waste time hanging…
- It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in…
- As she read, at peace with the world and happy as only a little girl could be with a fine book and a little bowl…
- I came to a clear conclusion, and it is a universal one: To live, to struggle, to be in love with life--in love with all…
- It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good…
- Brooklyn was a dream. All the things that happened there just couldn't happen. It was all dream stuff. Or was it all real and true…
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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