Some say that hope lies in a nation; others, in a man. I believe rather that it is awakened, revived, nourished by millions of solitary individuals whose deeds and works every day negate frontiers and the crudest implications of history.
-Albert Camus, from Create Dangerously
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We begin in admiration and we end by organizing our disappointment.
-Gaston Bachelard
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You ask about the effect my work has on others. If I may speak ironically, that's a masculine question. Men always want to be influential. I see that somewhat as an onlooker. Do I see myself as influential? No. I want to understand.
— Hannah Arendt
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