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- At least with pets, and for all I know, people too, intelligence and quick-wittedness have nothing to do with a talent for being loved, or…
- My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.
- When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.
- Every relationship has at least one really good day. What I mean is, no matter how sour things go, there's always that day. That day…
- You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that.
- In truth, there are only two realities: the one for people who are in love or love each other, and the one for people who…
- You know, there's something heartsick about parties like this. Look at us. We're all pretending to be smart, as if intelligence were the cure for…
- As the poet says, all happy couples are alike, it's the unhappy ones who create the stories. I'm no longer a story. Happiness has made…
- When you break the heart of the philosopher, you must apply great force and cunning strategy, but when the deed is completed, the heart lies…
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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