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- And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her so that only…
- There's no such thing as effortless beauty - you should know that. There's no effort which is not beautiful - lifting a heavy stone or…
- The baby explodes into an unknown world that is only knowable through some kind of a story – of course that is how we all…
- I believe in fiction and the power of stories because that way we speak in tongues. We are not silenced. All of us, when in…
- Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the…
- I can't do it. I've been here before and it's not a room with a view. The only power I have is the negative power…
- The tamer my love, the farther away it is from love. In fierceness, in heat, in longing, in risk, I find something of love's nature.…
- If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.
- I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am.…
- She said she’d often wondered why she wanted to do some things and not do other things at all. Well, it was obvious with some…
- Do all lovers feel helpless and valiant in the presence of the beloved? Helpless because the need to roll over like a pet dog is…
- Today, the sun is everywhere, and everything solid is nothing but its own shadow, I know that the real things in life, the things I…
- She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do…
- Sometimes I think of you and I feel giddy. Memory makes me lightheaded, drunk on champagne. All the things we did. And if anyone has…
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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