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One Quotes by Walker Percy
- I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.
- The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.
- Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases,…
- The conviction: I will not tolerate this age. The freedom: the freedom to act on my conviction. And I will act. No one else has…
- Your discovery, as best as I can determine, is that there is an alternative which no one has hit upon. It is that one finding…
- It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.
- The mystery lies in the here and now. The mystery is: What is one to do with oneself? As you get older you begin to…
- Hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world. This is another thing about the world which is upsidedown:…
- For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle…
- Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met…
- Where there is chance of gain, there is also chance of loss. Whenever one courts great happiness, one also risks malaise.
- I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at…
- One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance…
- How did it happen that now he could see everything so clearly. Something had given him leave to live in the present. Not once in…
- Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a…
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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
- 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
- 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
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle