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- The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and…
- Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.
- All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity. It…
- I suppose there were moonless nights and dark ones with but a silver shaving and pale stars in the sky, but I remember them all…
- Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin…
- It is cremated youth. It is all yours--no one gave it to you.
- The end is nothing; the road is all.
- Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of…
- There seemed to be nothing to see; no fences, no creeks or trees, no hills or fields. If there was a road, I could not…
- Nearly all the Escapists in the long past have managed their own budget and their social relations so unsuccessfully that I wouldn't want them for…
- All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.
- You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?
- The prayers of all good people are good.
- He domesticated and developed the native wild flowers. He had one hill-side solidly clad with that low-growing purple verbena which mats over the hills of…
- This is reality, whether you like it or not--all those frivolities of summer, the light and shadow, the living mask of green that trembled over…
- The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't…
- Look at my papa here; he's been dead all these years, and yet he is more real to me than almost anybody else. He never…
- There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.
- I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered –about her teeth for instance. I know so many women who have kept all…
- Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world
- It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our…
- But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or gesture that somehow…
- They ravaged neither the rivers nor the forest, and if they irrigated, they took as little water as would serve their needs. The land and…
- Only a Woman, divine, could know all that a woman can suffer.
- When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, 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