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Quote by Hannah Arendt
Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but

Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one. – Hannah Arendt

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Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. – Hannah Arendt

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Tyranny
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. – Hannah Arendt

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Twentieth Century
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle. – Hannah Arendt

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Fashion
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. – H. L. Mencken

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Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience – by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence. – Herbert Read

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I learn from experience. – Alan Dershowitz

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If you search and search and stop searching, then ultimately youll find what you need. It is the experience of living. – Marion Cotillard

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