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Only Quotes by Jhumpa Lahiri
- Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
- In fiction, plenty do the job of conveying information, rousing suspense, painting characters, enabling them to speak. But only certain sentences breathe and shift about,…
- Gogol remembers having to do the same thing when he was younger, when his grandparents died...He remembers, back then, being bored by it, annoyed at…
- While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that…
- The thought of Christmas overwhelms him. He no longer looks forward to the holiday; he wants only to be on the other side of the…
- And wasn't it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so that sometimes even a ride by himself on the subway…
- And yet she could not forgive herself. Even as an adult, she wished only that she could go back and change things: the ungainly things…
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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
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- 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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