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- I listen to the summer symphony outside my window. Truthfully, it's not a symphony at all. There's no tune, no melody, only the same notes…
- Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over,…
- The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them,…
- If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people." "A zillion?" "Even…
- A mockingbird has moved into our neighborhood. It perches atop a telephone pole behind our backyard. Every morning it is the first thing I hear.…
- Whos love do you cherrish more? Hers or theirs? when you deside that, it's all downhill from there.
- She dreams a lot. She dreams of Ondines and falling maidens and houses burning in the night. But search her dreams all you like and…
- One of the best things about life is friends. We all agree on that. And yet our shyness with strangers often prevents friendship from ever…
- Life is populated with scarecrows—all those people and things that seem so scary and trouble our sleep. Isn't it nice to know that most of…
- Who doesn't love a compliment? But every compliment comes with a warning: Beware—Do Not Overuse. Go ahead, sniff your compliment. Take a little sip. But…
- I'm that way, goofy as it sounds. Sometimes I don't want things to happen-I'm talking about good things, even wonderful things-because once they happen, I…
- I’m erased. I’m gone. I’m nothing. And then the world is free to flow into me like water into an empty bowl…. And… I see.…
- A strong relationship is an honest relationship, and no honest relationship is all peaches and cream. Love is the key. Where love abides, anger is…
- Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving…
- of all the unusual features of Stargirl, this struck me as the most remarkable. Bad things did not stick to her. Correction: her bad things…
- I didn't realize we were being watched. We were all being watched
- You know, there's a place we all inhabit, but we don't much think about it, we're scarcely conscious of it, and it lasts for less…
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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