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

Hannah Arendt

We first become aware of freedom or its opposite in our intercourse with others, not in the intercourse with ourselves.
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Freedom Ourselves
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
To be sure, totalitarian dictators do not consciously embark upon the road to insanity.
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Road Sanity
Revolutionaries do not make revolutions! The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and when they can pick it up. Armed uprising by itself has never yet led to revolution.
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Lying Power Revolution Weapon
Comprehension, in short, means the unpremeditated, attentive facing up to, and resisting of, reality—whatever it may be.
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Attention Reality Resistance
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
Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Act Easy Thinking
Factuality itself depends for its continued existence upon the existence of the nontotalitarian world.
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Existence World
The third world is not a reality, but an ideology.
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Ideas Reality World
Beginning, before it becomes a historical event, is the supreme capacity of man; politically, it is identified with man’s freedom. ‘That a beginning be made man was created’ said Augustine. This beginning is guaranteed by each new birth; it is indeed every man.
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Beginning Born Freedom Identify Man Philosophy
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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Action Forgiveness Freedom
Good works, because they must be forgotten instantly, can never become part of the world; they come and go,leaving no trace. They truly are not of this world.
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Easy Forget Goodness True World
What we usually call life is death, what we usually call death is life.
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Death Deep Life Philosophy
The point, as Marx saw it, is that dreams never come true.
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Dream Perspective True
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 point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability.
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Creation Hide Promise

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