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One Quotes by David Markson
- Is T.S. Eliot the only poet one can think of who could have spent a year on his own in Paris at twenty-three—and managed to…
- In fact one frequently seemed to gather all sorts of similar information about subjects one had less than profound interest in.
- Once, Turner had himself lashed to the mast of a ship for several hours, during a furious storm, so that he could later paint the…
- Doubtless these are inconsequential perplexities. Still, inconsequential perplexities have now and again been known to become the fundamental mood of existence, one suspects.
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
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- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — 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 defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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