The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.Hannah Arendt
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
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The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
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Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.
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The human condition is such that pain and effort are not just symptoms which can be removed without changing life itself they are the modes in which life itself, together with the necessity to which it is bound, makes itself felt. For mortals, the ''easy life of the gods'' would be a lifeless life.
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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