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- My existence from day to day has become a matter of averting my eyes, of cringing. Death is the only truth left. Death is what…
- If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there…
- She gives him what he can only call a sweet smile. 'So you are determined to go on being bad. Mad, bad, and dangerous to…
- Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has…
- In a world of chance is there a better and a worse? We yield to a stranger's embrace or give ourselves to the waves; for…
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- 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
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
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