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One Quotes by Janet Frame
- Life is hell, but at least there are prizes. Or so one thought.
- Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could…
- But it is imperative, for our own survival, that we avoiid one another, and what more successful means of avoidance are there than words? Language…
- Possibility was not a bag or box that could be closed and sealed, it was a vast open chute which received everything, everything; one could…
- The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has to keep pretending…
- Listening to her, one experienced a deep uneasiness as of having avoided an urgent responsibility, like someone who, walking at night along the banks of…
- He sees the land of meaning, and one path to it, and the so-called “normal†people traveling swiftly and in comfort to the land; he…
- She grew more and more silent about what really mattered. She curled inside herself like one of those black chimney brushes, the little shellfish you…
- They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare