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Only Quotes by Michael Ondaatje
- In the book the relationship with Katharine and Almasy is sort of only in the patient's mind.
- Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between…
- He knows that the only way he can accept losing her is if he can continue to hold her or be held by her. If…
- She is a woman of honour and smartness whose wild leaves out luck, always taking risks, and there is something in her brow now, that…
- I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if…
- Why are you not smarter? It's only the rich who can't afford to be smart. They're compromised. They got locked years ago into privilege. They…
- In Canada pianos needed water. You opened up the back and left a full glass of water, and a month later the glass would be…
- This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.
- There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace…
- And it would be a spare life he would be certain to lead as a schoolteacher in some urban location. But he had a serenity…
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- 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
- 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
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle