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- But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one…
- Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty…
- I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to…
- All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important…
- Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not…
- Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates.…
- Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my flesh, and keep…
- These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is a duty, we…
- Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving but drowning. I…
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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