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- The creative person, the person who moves from an irrational source of power, has to face the fact that this power antagonizes. Under all the…
- We saw the strong trees struggle and their plumes do down, The poplar bend and whip back till it split to fall, The elm tear…
- I think of the trees and how simply they let go, let fall the riches of a season, how without grief (it seems) they can…
- I feel happy to be keeping a journal again. I've missed it, missed naming things as they appear, missed the half hour when I push…
- Here life goes on, even and monotonous on the surface, full of lightning, of summits and of despair, in its depths. We have now arrived…
- When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything, do all they…
- For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.
- Growing old is, of all things we experience, that which takes the most courage, and at a time when we have the least resources, especially…
- We are all jellyfish, too pitiful and too afraid of being disliked to be honest.
- I would predicate that in all great works of genius masculine and feminine elements in the personality find expression, whether this androgynous nature is played…
- If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy,…
- We are all, whether we know it or not, in search of a way to enrich, to drink during the fizz, to inhale deeper our…
- Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy…
- One has only to set a loved human being against the fact that we are all in peril all the time to get back a…
- I loved them all the way one loves at any age -- if it's real at all -- obsessively, painfully, with wild exultation, with guilt,…
- I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve,…
- In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes,…
- Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and…
- For after all we make our faces as we go along...
- Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember nothing stays the same for long, not even pain.…
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- 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