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- The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we…
- Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety.
- Like all writers, he measured the achievements of others by what they had accomplished, asking of them that they measure him by what he envisaged…
- To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to…
- Nothing is built on stone; all is built on sand, but we must build as if the sand were stone.
- Any life, no matter how long and complex it may be, is made up of a single moment-the moment in which a man finds out,…
- Time broadens the scope of verses and I know of some which, like music, are everything for all men.
- Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.
- I would define the baroque as that style that deliberately exhausts (or tries to exhaust) its own possibilities, and that borders on self-caricature. The baroque…
- When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
- I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me.
- In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.
- All that happens to us, including our humiliations, our misfortunes, our embarrassments, all is given to us as raw material, as clay, so that we…
- There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to…
- All literature, is, finally autobiographical.
- We forget that we are all dead men conversing with dead men.
- In the critics' vocabulary, the work 'precursor' is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemics or rivalry.
- I have tried (I am not sure how successfully) to write plain tales. I dare not say they are simple; there is not a simple…
- No one is anyone, one single immortal man is all men. Like Cornelius Agrippa, I am god, I am hero, I am philosopher, I am…
- In the critic's vocabulary, the word "precursor" is indispensable, but it should be cleansed of all connotations of polemic or rivalry. The fact is that…
- Whatever one man does, it is as if all men did it. For that reason, it is not unfair that one disobedience in a garden…
- Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about…
- To think, analyze and invent, he [Pierre Menard] also wrote me, “are not anomalous acts, but the normal respiration of the intelligence. To glorify the…
- A writer - and, I believe, generally all persons - must think that whatever happens to him or her is a resource. All things have…
- Israelites, Christians and Muslims profess immortality, but the veneration they render this world proves they believe only in it, since they destine all other worlds,…
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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
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- 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