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- There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor…
- What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the…
- Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as…
- Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
- I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the state of slumber…
- The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are…
- Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of…
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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