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Book: The Human Condition
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  1. Hannah Arendt _ The Human Condition

    The possible redemption from the predicament of irreversibility──of being unable to undo what one has done──is the faculty of forgiving. The remedy for unpredictability, for the chaotic uncertainty of the future, is contained in the faculty to make and keep promises. Both faculties depend upon plurality, on the presence and acting of others, for no man can forgive himself and no one can be bound by a promise made only to himself.
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  2. Hannah Arendt _ The Human Condition

    Action, as distinguished from fabrication, is never possible in isolation; to be isolated is to be deprived of the capacity to act.
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  3. Hannah Arendt _ The Human Condition

    Men in plural {…} can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
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  4. Hannah Arendt _ The Human Condition

    Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but antipolitical, perhaps the most powerful of all antipolitical forces.
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  5. Hannah Arendt _ The Human Condition

    The common prejudice that love is as common as "romance" may be due to the fact that we all learned about it first through poetry. But the poets fool us; they are the only ones to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake it for a universal one.
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