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- Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.
- Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion…
- All photographs are there to remind us of what we forget. In this - as in other ways - they are the opposite of paintings.…
- All nationalisms are at heart deeply concerned with names: with the most immaterial and original human invention. Those who dismiss names as a detail have…
- What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes…
- The essence of songs is neither vocal nor cerebral but organic. We follow songs in order to be enclosed. We find ourselves inside a message.…
- Malevich, Lissitsky, Kandinsky, Tatlin, Pevsner, Rodchenko… all believed in the social role of art… Their works were like hinged doors, connecting activity with activity. Art…
- The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it…
- What is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind.
- When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total…
- All weddings are similar, but every marriage is different.
- I actually think of myself as quite a shy person, although I know I give the impression of someone much more confident. I think what…
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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