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- Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.
- She either confused me with a much older child or else she glimpsed deep inside my soul and perceived a hole that needed filling. I've…
- We're all unique, just never in the ways we imagine.
- After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.
- I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that…
- All true readers have a book, a moment when real life is never going to be able to compete with fiction again.
- It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The…
- Lil had always believed that a person's duty was to make the best of the hand they were dealt. No use wondering what might have…
- A way of looking at you that told you she was listening, that she understood all you were saying, and all you weren't.
- In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.
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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