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- He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to…
- In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide…
- One recognises one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it.
- I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate…
- And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither…
- The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
- Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.
- Accept life, take it as it is? Stupid. The means of doing otherwise? Far from our having to take it, it is life that possesses…
- Every stone here sweats with suffering, I know that. I have never looked at them without a feeling of anguish. But deep in my heart…
- There was the same dazzling red glare. The sea gasped for air with each shallow, stifled wave that broke on the sand. ...with every blade…
- In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence…
- But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us…
- But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on…
- Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform…
- Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where…
- Whatever prevents you from doing your work has become your work.
- From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions,…
- Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement…
- There's the risk of being loved...and that would keep me from being happy.
- Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.
- And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world.
- I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough…
- When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can…
- Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life,…
- how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!
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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
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — 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
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle