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- Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God.
- To love one child and to love all children, whether living or dead -somewhere these two loves come together. To love a no-good but humble…
- In love there are no vacations. No such thing. Love has to be lived fully with its boredom and all that.
- I know all one can know when one knows nothing.
- Madness is like intelligence, you know. You can't explain it. Just like intelligence. It comes on you, it fills you, and then you understand it.…
- Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary,…
- I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhoods and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always…
- It's only women who are not really quite women at all, frivolous women who have no idea, who neglect repairs.
- In a certain state of mind, all trace of feeling is banished. Whenever I remain silent in a certain way, I don't love you, have…
- Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn't understand her, that he never will, that he lacks the power to understand such perverseness.…
- All that remains of that minute is time in all its purity, bone-white time.
- I meet you. I remember you. Who are you? You’re destroying me. You’re good for me. How could I know this city was tailor-made for…
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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
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- 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