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- This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain…
- It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. With Americans, it is a national trait, as native to us as the…
- We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
- But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a…
- A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.
- The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.
- Resentment is the most precious flower of poverty.
- We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for…
- In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very…
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- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — 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 most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- Most people would rather give than get affection. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster