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- Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's…
- Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's life needs time…
- She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
- All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask him to tell you about…
- The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did…
- All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know the feeling when…
- I am human. Like all humans, I do not remember my birth. By the time we wake up to ourselves, we are little children, and…
- I know there are people who don't read fiction at all, and I find it hard to understand how they can bear to be inside…
- Every so often I take out a volume and read a page or two. After all, reading is looking after in a manner of speaking.…
- Everybody has a story. It's like families. You might not know who they are, might have lost them, but they exist all the same. You…
- He didn't know of course. Not really. And yet that was what he said, and I was soothed to hear it. For I knew what…
- There are cultures in which it is believed that a name contains all a persons mystical power. That a name should be known only to…
- Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more…
- We are made of the stories we have heard and read all through our lives.
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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