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One Quotes by Saul Bellow
- Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
- There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably…
- De Tocqueville considered the impulse toward well-being as one of the strongest impulses of a democratic society. He can't be blamed for underestimating the destructive…
- The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human…
- If I had a child of school age, I would send him to one of the Waldorf Schools.
- Great pressure is brought to bear to make us undervalue ourselves. On the other hand, civilization teaches that each of us is an inestimable prize.…
- One of the booby traps of freedom - which is bordered on all sides by isolation - is that we think so well of ourselves.…
- You have one of two choices. Either you can panic and start making frantic attempts to reform under the glare of these awful critical eyes,…
- With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die,…
- In here, the human bosom -- mine, yours, everybody's -- there isn't just one soul. There's a lot of souls. But there are two main…
- He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had…
- One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy (?) made it…
- I see that I've become a really bad correspondent. It's not that I don't think of you. You come into my thoughts often. But when…
- But privately when things got very bad I often looked into books to see whether I could find some helpful words, and one day I…
- I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.
- One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.
- The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the…
- One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like…
- I have begun in old age to understand just how oddly we are all put together. We are so proud of our autonomy that we…
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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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