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- Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all…
- I didn't know shorthand either. This meant I couldn't get a good job after college. My mother kept telling me nobody wanted a plain English…
- I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the…
- I started adding up all the things I couldn't do.
- What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all…
- Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I…
- The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.
- God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we…
- I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
- I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost...but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other…
- I want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
- From the night Buddy Willard kissed me and said I must go out with a lot of boys, he made me feel I was much…
- I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over - dead white, of course,…
- I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
- The sky leans on me, me, the one upright among all horizontals.
- I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do…
- I knew you'd decide to be all right again.
- Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the testing…
- If you have no past or no future, which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well…
- But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling…
- I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up…
- You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time...
- The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A…
- I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the…
- I liked looking on at other people in crucial situations. If there was a road accident or a street fight or a baby pickled in…
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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