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Human Quotes by A. S. Byatt
- Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
- On buses and trains, I always think about the inexhaustible variety of human genes. We see types, and occasionally twins, but never doubles. All faces…
- Narration is as much a part of human nature as breath and the circulation of the blood.
- No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed.
- Coherence and closure are deep human desires that are presently unfashionable. But they are always both frightening and enchantingly desirable. "Falling in love," characteristically, combs…
- Dorothy was in that state human beings passed through at the beginning of a love affair, in which they desire to say anything and everything…
- ...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings…
- That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.
- I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner…
- My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot…
- I find the attempt to find things out, which scientists are possessed by, to be as human as breathing, or feeding, or sex. And so…
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- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
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- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — 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
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle