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One Quotes by Michel Houellebecq
- To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the…
- Adolescence is not only an important period in life, but that it is the only period where one may speak of life in the full…
- I admit that invective is one of my pleasures. This only brings me problems in life, but that's it. I attack, I insult. I have…
- The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die.
- If life is an illusion it's a pretty painful one.
- I've lived so little that I tend to imagine I'm not going to die; it seems improbable that human existence can be reduced to so…
- On Sunday morning I went out for a while in the neighbourhood; I bought some raisin bread. The day was warm but a little sad,…
- This progressive effacement of human relationships is not without certain problems for the novel. How, in point of fact, would one handle the narration of…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- 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
- 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
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle