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- . . . The books we need are the kind that act upon us like a misfortune, that make us suffer like the death of…
- Only our concept of time makes it possible for us to speak of the Day of Judgment by that name in reality it is a…
- Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite…
- If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that…
- I believe that we should only read those books that bite and sting us. If a book does not rouse us with a blow then…
- Every one of us has a bad conscience, which he tries to escape by going to sleep as quickly as possible.
- We need the books that affect us like a disaster
- A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.
- The fact that there is nothing but a spiritual world deprives us of hope and gives us certainty.
- A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.
- We are separated from God on two sides; the Fall separates us from Him, the Tree of Life separates Him from us.
- It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial…
- We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.
- I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in…
- I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us.
- Life's splendor forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It…
- There is an infinite amount of hope in the universe ... but not for us.
- The purpose of a story is to be an axe that breaks up the ice within us.
- We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like…
- If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?
- I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my…
- Each of us has his own way of emerging from the underworld, mine is by writing. That's why the only way I can keep going,…
- I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us…
- There's no quiet place here on earth for our love, not in the village and not anywhere else, so I picture a grave, deep and…
- "Don't you want to join us?" I was recently asked by an acquaintance when he ran across me alone after midnight in a coffeehouse that…
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong