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- Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is…
- The lovesick, the betrayed, and the jealous all smell alike.
- Chance, my master and my friend, will, I feel sure, deign once again to send me the spirits of his unruly kingdom. All my trust…
- When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.
- - and how time flies! What, has it already been twenty years, already forty years that we are together? Why, how terrible! We haven't yet…
- Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to…
- Jealousy is not at all low, but it catches us humbled and bowed down, at first sight.
- Is suffering so very serious? I have come to doubt it. It may be quite childish, a sort of undignified pastime I'm referring to the…
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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