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- A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.
- It was the love of love, the love of swallows up all else, a grateful love, a love of natural, of people, of animals, a…
- Sometimes I find myself thinking, rather wistfully, about Lao Tzu's famous dictum: 'Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish.' All around…
- History must stay open, it is all humanity.
- The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle us anew.
- But the thing that stands eternally in the way of really good writing is always one: the virtual impossibility of lifting to the imagination those…
- But time in only another liar, so go along the wall a little further: if blackberries prove bitter there'll be mushrooms, fairy-ring mushrooms in the…
- I think all writing is a disease. You can't stop it.
- Time is a storm in which we are all lost.
- At our age the imagination across the sorry facts lifts us to make roses stand before thorns. Sure love is cruel and selfish and totally…
- All women are not Helen, I know that, but have Helen in their hearts.
- THE THOUGHTFUL LOVER Deny yourself all half things. Have it or leave it. But it will keep—or it is not worth the having. Never start…
- But all art is sensual and poetry particularly so. It is directly, that is, of the senses, and since the senses do not exist without…
- Their time past, pulled down cracked and flung to the fire Mgo up in a roar All recognition lost, burnt clean clean in the flame,…
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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