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- All interest in disease and death is only another expression of interest in life.
- The accouterments of life were so rich and varied, so elaborated, that almost no place at all was left for life itself. Each and every…
- The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those…
- He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on…
- He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.
- And then the sly arch-lover that he was, he said the subtlest thing of all: that the lover was nearer the divine than the beloved;…
- Even in a personal sense, after all, art is an intensified life. By art one is more deeply satisfied and more rapidly used up. It…
- To allow only the kind of art that the average man understands is the worst small-mindedness and the murder of mind and spirit. It is…
- And lending it one mental fillip the more, the fact that all these people were inwardly attacked by well-nigh resistless decay, and that most of…
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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