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- If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decided to set it up here on earth, that most terrible of all goals…
- The process of writing fiction is totally unconscious. It comes from what you are learning, as you live, from within. For me, all writing is…
- The primacy of the word, basis of the human psyche, that has in our age been used for mind-bending persuasion and brain-washing pulp, disgraced by…
- It is not the conscious changes made in their lives by men and women-a new job, a new town, a divorce-which really shape them...but a…
- Art defies defeat by its very existence, representing the celebration of life, in spite of all attempts to degrade and destroy it.
- All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
- Literature is one of the few areas left where black and white feel some identity of purpose; we all struggle under censorship.
- Any writer of any worth at all hopes to play only a pocket-torch of light - and rarely, through genius, a sudden flambeau - into…
- The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
- If people would forget about utopia! When rationalism destroyed heaven and decidedto set it up here on earth, thatmost terrible of all goals entered human…
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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