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One Quotes by Paul Bowles
- It's very hard to write about that which is always beautiful and pleasant and good. You don't get anywhere with it. There's no friction in…
- Each time I go to a place I have not seen before I hope it will be as different as possible from the places I…
- If people and their manner of living were alike everywhere, there would not be much point in moving from one place to another.
- Because neither she nor Port had ever lived a life of any kind of regularity, they had both made the fatal error of coming hazily…
- He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just…
- You will find yourself among people. There is no help for this nor should you want it otherwise. The passages where no one waits are…
- We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced…
- Whereas the tourist generally hurries back home at the end of a few weeks or months, the traveler belonging no more to one place than…
- I've always wanted to get as far as possible from the place where I was born. Far both geographically and spiritually. To leave it behind…
- One never took the time to savour the details; one said: another day, but always with the hidden knowledge that each day was unique and…
More One Quotes
- 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