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- Sometimes you can do all the right things and not succeed. And that's a hard lesson of reality.
- I hope we're all ready to leave the phenomenal world, and enter into the sublime?
- Children - if you think back really what it was like to be a child and what it was like to know other children -…
- You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight…
- The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city…
- After all, the appeal to stop being yourself, even for a little while, is very great
- Does such a thing as 'the fatal flaw,' that showy dark crack running down the middle of a life, exist outside literature? I used to…
- I suppose the shock of recognition is one of the nastiest shocks of all.
- It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I don’t know what else…
- Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp…
- All those layers of silence upon silence.
- And the flavor of Pippa's kiss--bittersweet and strange--stayed with me all the way back uptown, swaying and sleepy as I sailed home on the bus,…
- And as much as I’d like to believe there’s a truth beyond illusion, I’ve come to believe that there’s no truth beyond illusion. Because, between…
- To understand the world at all, sometimes you could only focus on a tiny bit of it, look very hard at what was close to…
- What if one happens to be possessed of a heart that can’t be trusted—? What if the heart, for its own unfathomable reasons, leads one…
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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