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- The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as it…
- I was never a man of great ambition I cried too easily I didn't have a head for science Words often failed me While others…
- ...An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand...
- Only now that my son was gone did I realize how much I'd been living for him. When I woke up in the morning it…
- Without memories to cloud it, the mind perceives with absolute clarity. Each observation stands out in stark relief. In the beginning, when there's not yet…
- Herman slipped his hand into mine, and I thought, An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not…
- When you are young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close -- as close as you can…
- All my life I have arrived early only to find myself standing self-consciously on a corner, outside a door, in an empty room, but the…
- We search for patterns, you see, only to find where the patterns break. And it’s there, in that fissure, that we pitch our tents and…
- Only later did I come to understand that to be a mother is to be an illusion. No matter how vigilant, in the end a…
- And it's like some tiny nothing that sets off a natural disaster halfway across the world, only this was the opposite of disaster, how by…
- To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and then to know it with your eyes…
- There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes things worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and that…
- Don’t you see?” I said. “He could change every detail, but he couldn’t change her.” “But why?” His obtuseness frustrated me. “Because he was in…
- There are so many ways to be alive, but only one way to be dead.
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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
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle