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- One day I was living silently in a personal hell, without anyone to tell what I felt, without even knowing that the feelings I had…
- A great piece of literature encompasses all that is and all that will be.
- I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don't wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like…
- All of these declarations of what writing ought to be, which I had myself-though, thank God I had never committed them to paper-I think are…
- I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!
- The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so the distortion is now just normal. That…
- I come from a little island with the Caribbean Sea on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. I come from, really, nowhere,…
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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