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Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

Hannah Arendt

What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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Death Deep Life Philosophy
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Act Easy Thinking
The last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.
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Effort Escape History Ideas Responsibility
War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
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Luxury Nation War
Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
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Existence World
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.
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Commitment Mistake Reveal
But this was a moral question, and the answer to it may not have been legally relevant.
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Moral Philosophy
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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Attraction Politics Won
As citizens, we must prevent wrongdoing because the world in which we all live, wrong-doer, wrong sufferer and spectator, is at stake.
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Live Suffering World Wrong
When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
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Old Philosophy Truth
Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time.
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Easy Hands Life Love Time Yourself
The aim of totalitarian education has never been to instill convictions but to destroy the capacity to form any.
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Destruction Education
And if he suffers, he must suffer for what he has done, not for what he has caused others to suffer.
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Himself Philosophy Suffering
Men, though they must die, are not born in order to die but in order to begin.
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Beginning Born Death Man
The curious sterility of utopias comes from the absence within them of any scope for initiative, any room for plurality.
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Absence Deep
It was as though in those last minutes he was summing up the lessons that this long course in human wickedness had taught us – the lesson of the fearsome, word-and-thought-defying banality of evil.
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Evil Himself Learning Word

Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.

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