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- I dreamt that I woke up. It's the oldest dream of all, and I've just had it
- All bad things are exaggerated in the middle of the night. When you lie awake, you only think of bad things.
- Grief seems at first to destroy not just all patterns, but also to destroy a belief that a pattern exists.
- And that was all the part of it - the way you were obliged to live. You stifled a groan, you lied about your love,…
- Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.
- He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They are scarcely adult, some men: they wish women…
- Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional…
- How rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve? How hopelessly we signal; how dark the sky; how big the waves. We…
- It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.
- We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who was…
- I certainly believe we all suffer damage, one way or another. How could we not,except in a world of perfect parents, siblings, neighbours, companions? And…
- Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes,…
- In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In…
- And perhaps it was also the case that, for all a lifetime's internal struggling, you were finally no more than what others saw you as.…
- Not merely hope, but any burdensome yearning: ambition, hatred, love (especially love) - how rarely do our emotions meet the object they seem to deserve?…
- When we're young, everyone over the age of thirty looks middle-aged, everyone over fifty antique. And time, as it goes by, confirms that we weren't…
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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