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- We all have appointments with the past.
- To set one's name to a work gives no one a title to be remembered, for who knows how many of the best of men…
- Otherwise, all I remember of the denizens of the Nocturama is that several of them had strikingly large eyes, and the fixed inquiring gaze found…
- I feel more and more as if time did not exist at all... only various spaces interlocking according to the rules of a higher form…
- By all means be experimental, but let the reader be part of the experiment
- We take almost all the decisive steps in our lives as a result of slight inner adjustments of which we are barely conscious.
- It seems to me then as if all the moments of our life occupy the same space, as if future events already existed and were…
- Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is…
- How I wished during those sleepless hours that I belonged to a different nation, or better still, to none at all.
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- 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