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- Bad things will happen and good things too. Your life will be full of surprises. Miracles happen only where there has been suffering. So taste…
- Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great,…
- Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow…
- Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws…
- There is a kind of expressed love which is easy to subvert. When a figure is loved for their deeds, their conquests, their heroism, their…
- What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated…
More Only Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by… — 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
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle