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- All books are doors; and some of them are wardrobes.
- The land is all too shallow It is painted on the sky And trembles like the wind-shook rain When the Raven King passed by
- But when the fairy sang the whole world listened to him. Stephen felt clouds pause in their passing; he felt sleeping hills shift and murmur;…
- There is nothing in the world so easy to explain as failure - it is, after all, what everybody does all the time.
- I know magicians and I know magic and I say this: all magicians lie and this one more than most.
- For, though the room was silent, the silence of half a hundred cats is a peculiar thing, like fifty individual silences all piled one on…
- Time and I have quarrelled. All hours are midnight now. I had a clock and a watch, but I destroyed them both. I could not…
- When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all…
- He understood for the first time that the world is not dumb at all, but merely waiting for someone to speak to it in a…
- I mean that two of any thing is a most uncomfortable number. One may do as he pleases. Six may get along well enough. But…
- I am, as far as I can tell, about a month behind Lord Byron. In every town we stop at we discover innkeepers, postillions, officials,…
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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