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- All literature is gossip.
- The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday,…
- All writing, all art, is an act of faith. If one tries to contribute to human understanding, how can that be called decadent? It's like…
- That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
- What I do requires fantastic concentration... but you can't be totally alone, or you lose all contact with reality, so even when I'm engrossed and…
- All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer,…
- All artists are two-headed calves.
- I will say only that all a writer has to work with is the material he has gathered as the result of his own endeavor…
- The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.
- Did you ever, in that wonderland wilderness of adolesence [sic] ever, quite unexpectedly, see something, a dusk sky, a wild bird, a landscape, so exquisite…
- But we are alone, darling child, terribly, isolated each from the other; so fierce is the world's ridicule we cannot speak or show our tenderness;…
- But mostly they were lies I told; it wasn't my fault, I couldn't remember, because it was as though I'd been to one of those…
- If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing…
- Of many magics, one is watching a beloved sleep: free of eyes and awareness, you for a sweet moment hold the heart of him; helpless,…
- So the days, the last days, blow about in a memory, hazy autumnal, all alike as leaves: until a day unlike any other I've lived
- Have you never heard what the wise man say : all of the future exists in the past.
- Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.
- Most of life is so dull it is not worth discussing, and it is dull at all ages. When we change our brand of cigarette,…
- They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the…
- Love should be allowed. I’m all for it. Now that I’ve got a pretty good idea what it is.
- all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil…
- The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul - desirable or not, it is a natural thing that…
- there is only one unpardonable sin--deliberate cruelty. All else can be forgiven.
- You know the days when you get the mean reds? Paul Varjak: The mean reds. You mean like the blues? Holly Golightly: No. The blues…
- Just remember: If one bird carried every grain of sand, grain by grain, across the ocean, by the time he got them all on the…
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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