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- I love the night passionately... I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love…
- To love very much is to love inadequately; we love-that is all. Love cannot be modified without being nullified. Love is a short word but…
- Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food
- I love the night passionately. I love it as I love my country, or my mistress, with an instinctive, deep, and unshakeable love. I love…
- ...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.
- Conversation. What is it? A Mystery! It's the art of never seeming bored, of touching everything with interest, of pleasing with trifles, of being fascinating…
- Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it,…
- We breathe, sleep, drink, eat, work and then die! The end of life is death. What do you long for? Love? A few kisses and…
- To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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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