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- In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
- When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but a hundred clichés moves us…
- The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch…
- Jacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not…
- We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore,…
- For, I must tell you, in this world where today all lose their minds over many & wondrous Machines -- some of which, alas, you…
- I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the…
- There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.
- All of us were slowly losing that intellectual light that allows you always to tell the similar from the identical, the metaphorical from the real.
- Semiotics is a general theory of all existing languages... all forms of communication - visual, tactile, and so on... There is general semiotics, which is…
- I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the…
- With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
- The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent…
- I seem to know all the cliches, but not how to put them together in a believable way. Or else these stories are terrible and…
- The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common…
- Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books…
- All the stories I would like to write persecute me. When I am in my chamber, it seems as if they are all around me,…
- All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.
- What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to…
- I should be at peace. I have understood. Don't some say that peace comes when you understand? I have understood. I should be at peace.…
- On sober reflection, I find few reasons for publishing my Italian version of an obscure, neo-Gothic French version of a seventeenth century Latin edition of…
- And so I fell devoutly asleep and slept a long time, because young people seem to need sleep more than the old, who have already…
- Not bad, not bad at all," Diotallevi said. "To arrive at the truth through the painstaking reconstruction of a false text.
- But why do some people support [the heretics]?" "Because it serves their purposes, which concern the faith rarely, and more often the conquest of power."…
- Semiotics is in principle the discipline studying everything which can be used in order to lie. If something cannot be used to tell a lie,…
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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