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One Quotes by Edna O'Brien
- I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying…
- Life, after all, was a secret with the self. The more one gave out, the less there remained for the center--that center which she coveted…
- In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and…
- The other me, who did not mean to drown herself, went under the sea and remained there for a long time. Eventually she surfaced near…
- All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches…
- We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave…
- Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep,…
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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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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — 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
- 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
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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