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- You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
- When the Universe was not so out of whack as it is today, and all the stars were lined up in their proper places, so…
- I'll grant the random access to my heart, Thoul't tell me all the constants of thy love; And so we two shall all love's lemmas…
- Not far from here, by a white sun, behind a green star, lived the Steelypips, illustrious, industrious, and they hadn't a care: no spats in…
- Of the two powers, the two categories that take possession of us when we enter the world, space is by far the less mysterious. .…
- For what are myths if not the imposing of order on phenomena that do not possess order in themselves? And all myths, however they differ…
- The fate of a single man can be rich with significance, that of a few hundred less so, but the history of thousands and millions…
- We didn't know each other well. I never had the time. Now I see that it doesn't make any difference. The ones who hurry and…
- So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates…
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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