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- The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all…
- When you die of sorrow it's as if you've broken all the bones in your body, bruised yourself all over, cracked your skull. That's sorrow.
- I'll tell you, my friends: it's all in the nerves. The nerves that tense and relax as you approach the edges of companionship and love.…
- I’m seventeen years old, my name is Juan García Madero, and I’m in my first semester of law school. I wanted to study literature, not…
- I kept having dreams all night. I thought they were touching me with their fingers. But dreams don't have fingers, they have fists, so it…
- Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.
- We all have to die a bit every now and then and usually it's so gradual that we end up more alive than ever. Infinitely…
- What twisted people we are. How simple we seem, or at least pretend to be in front of others, and how twisted we are deep…
- As time goes by, as time goes by, the whip-crack of the years, the precipice of illusions, the ravine that swallows up all human endeavour…
- Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping me by the…
- Of all the islands he'd visited, two stood out. The island of the past, he said, where the only time was past time and the…
- The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight…
- I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their souls, I steal…
- Probably all of us, writers and readers alike, set out into exile, or at least into a certain kind of exile, when we leave childhood…
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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