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- All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.
- At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much,…
- ... I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong." 'A King can be better than that," the Prince insisted. "And so…
- We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps…
- Perhaps all a Tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and not yielding.
- All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap…
- When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home…
- So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once…
- Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the…
- Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.
- All stories must end so, with the next tale winking out of the corners of the last pages, promising more, promising moonlight and dancing and…
- I think that one morning, the Papess woke in her tower, and her blankets were so warm, and the sun was so golden, she could…
- The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of us longing for…
- Hats change everything. September knew this with all her being, deep in the place where she knew her own name, and that her mother would…
- Truly, Autumn is my season,” the scarlet beast chorted. “Spring and Summer and Winter all begin with such late letters! But Autumn and Fall, I…
- The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.
- True names,” said September wonderingly. “These are all true names. Like, when your parents call you to dinner and you don’t come and they call…
- She put her hand on her chest. “I have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must be still. I…
- But the thought arrived inside her like a train: Marya Morevna, all in black, here and now, was a point at which all the women…
- You will live as you live anywhere. With difficulty, and grief. Yes, you are dead. And I and my family and everyone, always, forever. All…
- I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
- Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.
- Do you think I am a fool, Masha? All this time, and you speak to me as though I were a flighty pinprick of a…
- Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.
- Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result in a great…
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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