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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.

Quote by Hannah Arendt about death, unforeseen, end, human imperfections, things, life

Everything can change, but not the language that we carry inside us, like a world more exclusive and final than one's mother's womb.

Quote by Italo Calvino about opinion, language, mother, change, world

Art is accusation, expression, passion. Art is a fight to the finish between black charcoal and white paper.

Quote by Gunter Grass about water, magic, art, end, fight

Murder begins where self-defense ends.

Quote by Georg Buchner about crime, end, self-control

Power may be at the end of a gun, but sometimes it's also at the end of the shadow or the image of a gun.

Quote by Jean Genet about punctuality, shadow, end, power

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Quote by Thomas Hardy about olderness, end, value, age, old, people, man

Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.

Quote by Lewis Carroll about destiny, beginning, end, contentment

Happiness consumes itself like a flame. It cannot burn for ever, it must go out, and the presentiment of its end destroys it at its very peak.

Quote by August Strindberg about happiness, end

The black serpent, leaving his filthy cave, Has finally suffered by your hand so sure and brave The end of its venomous existence so despised! From the tiger's guts, from his homicidal teeth You came and drew what he'd devoured from...

Quote by Joseph Chénier about poetry, victims, blood, existence, magic, end, contentment

No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation.

Quote by Frank Norris about art, magic, end, people

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Quote by George Seferis about action, proudness, end, egoism, things, man

Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity; and let us put aside all selfishness in consideration of language, nationality, or religion.

Quote by Jan Amos Komensky about education, nation, humanity, language, religion, end

The only real things which we take with us in the end are our own feelings, our loves, our hates and adversities. I ask myself: at the end of life, what will we leave outside? I suppose we can leave some feelings, less of hate, some of passion,...

Quote by Nichita Stănescu about love, feelings, end, hate, real estate, things, life

One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived.

Quote by Paul Bourget about life, thinking, end

Love must be learned, and learned again; there is no end to it.

Quote by Katherine Anne Porter about love, end

Experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

Quote by Katherine Anne Porter about experience, truth, contentment

The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

Quote by Norman Kingsley Mailer about art, purpose, moral, magic, people

Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion...

Quote by Charles W. Eliot about opinion, evolution, happiness, contentment, thinking

Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding.

Quote by Herbert Spencer about love, reward, life, wealth, end

The fight is a condition of life; life stops when fight ends.

Quote by Vissarion Belinsky about fight, end, life