Quote by Hannah Arendt
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. – Hannah Arendt

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Death not merely ends life, it also bestows upon it a silent completeness, snatched from the hazardous flux to which all things human are subject. – Hannah Arendt

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Death
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. – Hannah Arendt

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Beauty
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The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less… – Hannah Arendt

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Learning
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Death
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I am bound to add that the excess in too little has ever proved in me more dangerous than the excess in too much the last may cause indigestion, but the first causes death. – Giacomo Casanova

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Death

Justifying conscription to promote the cause of liberty is one of the most bizarre notions ever conceived by man! Forced servitude, with the risk of death and serious injury as a price to live free, makes no sense. – Ron Paul

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Death

Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death. – Hesiod

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Death

Im trying to knock the medical profession into accepting its responsibilities, and those responsibilities include assisting their patients with death. – Jack Kevorkian

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Death

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