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- As a child I was really into fantasy books with elves and goblins and swords, and I went through a phase for a few years…
- Hey, we've all got problems, chum. I'm overly talkative. You look like a field of buttercups in a suit.
- Believe me, I know all about bottle acoustics. I spent much of the sixth century in an old sesame oil jar, corked with wax, bobbing…
- That did it. I'd gone through a lot in the past few days. Everyone I met seemed to want a piece of me: djinn, magicians,…
- Not bad in short, though the last one [understanding the language of animals], isn't half as useful as you might expect, since when all's said…
- And sure enough,the youth in question was not his usual dapper self. His face was puffy, his eyes red and wild; his shirt(distressingly unbuttoned)hung over…
- A typical master. Right to the end, he didn’t give me a chance to get a word in edgeways. Which is a pity, because at…
- Ambition is all very well, my lad, but you must cloak it.
- If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it…
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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