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- Every crime destroys more Edens than our own
- Come, therefore, and let us fling mud at them!
- Families are always rising and falling in America.
- Mankind are earthen jugs with spirits in them.
- Trusting no man as his friend, he could not recognize his enemy when the latter actually appeared.
- Death was too definite an object to be wished for or avoided.
- The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure - that is the choicest of all.
- Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.
- Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.
- The calmer thought is not always the right thought, just as the distant view is not always the truest view
- The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.
- A man's bewilderment is the measure of his wisdom.
- Dream strange things and make them look like truth.
- The best of us being unfit to die, what an unexpressible absurdity to put the worst to death.
- The moment when a man's head drops off is seldom or never, I am inclined to think, precisely the most agreeable of his life.
- We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
- This greatest mortal consolation, which we derive from the transitoriness of all things-from the right of saying, in every conjuncture, "This, too, will pass away.
- We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not…
- Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
- We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.
- A woman's chastity consists, like an onion, of a series of coats.
- Sunlight is painting.
- Nobody has any conscience about adding to the improbabilities of a marvelous tale.
- You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
- There are many things in this world that a child must not ask about.
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- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento