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- Imagine now a man who is deprived of everyone he loves, and at the same time of his house, his habits, his clothes, in short,…
- The butterfly's attractiveness derives not only from colors and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it. We would not think them so beautiful if they did…
- For he who loses all often easily loses himself.
- To give a name to a thing is as gratifying as giving a name to an island, but it is also dangerous: the danger consists…
- It is this refrain that we hear repeated by everyone: you are not at home, this is not a sanatorium, the only exit is by…
- At that time I had not yet been taught the doctrine I was later to learn so hurriedly in the Lager: that man is bound…
- Even in this place one can survive, and therefore one must want to survive, to tell the story, to bear witness; and that to survive…
- Auschwitz is outside of us, but it is all around us, in the air. The plague has died away, but the infection still lingers and…
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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