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- All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.
- Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose…
- Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.
- And what is the potential man, after all? Is he not the sum of all that is human? Divine, in other words?
- There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that…
- Let me be, was all I wanted. Be what I am, no matter how I am.
- Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn't matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are,…
- Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.
- There was another thing I heartily disbelieved in - work. Work, it seemed to me even at the threshold of life, is an activity reserved…
- Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time, probe my soul, suckle my…
- For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has…
- Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their…
- New York! The white prisons, the sidewalks swarming with maggots, the breadlines, the opium joints that are built like palaces, the kikes that are there,…
- I’m an egotist, but I’m not selfish. There’s a difference. I’m a neurotic, I guess. I can’t stop thinking about myself. It isn’t that I…
- But it's just because the chances are all against you, just because there is so little hope, that life is sweet over here.
- One can see now how the idea of heaven takes hold of men's consciousness, how it gains ground even when all the props have been…
- You make me tremendously happy to hold me undivided - to let me be the artist, as it were, and yet not forgo the man,…
- Were there a Christian so faithful to his God as I was to her we would all be Jesus Christ today.
- I too love everything that flows: rivers, sewers, lava, semen, blood, bile, words, sentences. I love the amniotic fluid when it spills out of the…
- ...when you are convinced that all the exits are blocked, either you take to believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird. The…
- She rises up out of a sea of faces and embraces me, embraces me passionately--- a thousand eyes, noses, fingers, legs, bottles, windows, purses, saucers…
- I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and…
- Begin this moment, wherever you find yourself, and take no thought of the morrow. Look not to Russia, China, India, not to Washington, not to…
- He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his…
- It is our destiny to live with the wrong as well as the right kind of citizens, and to learn from them, the wrong-minded ones,…
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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