Author: Hannah Arendt

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• Ali Smith (1)
  • IN: How to be Both (2014) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Although the living is subject to the ruin of the tme, the process of decay is at the same time a process of crystallization, that in the depth of the sea, into which sinks and is dissolved what was once alive, some things 'suffer a sea-change' and survive in new crystallized forms and shapes that remain immune to the elements, as though they waited only for the pearl diver who one day will come down to them and bring them up into the world of the living.
    FROM: Introduction to Illuminations: Essays and Reflections, (1968), Essay, Germany/ US
• Ellen Feldman (1)
  • IN: The Unwitting (2014) Fiction, American
    EPIGRAPH: Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
    FROM: The Human Condition, (1958), Book, US/Germany
• Lavie Tidhar (1)
  • IN: A Man Lies Dreaming (2014) Fiction, NULL
    EPIGRAPH: Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardised codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognised function of protecting us against reality.
    FROM: The Banality of Evil, (1963), Book, US/Germany