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Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.

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Hannah Arendt
Age: 69 †
Born: 1906
Born: October 14
Died: 1975
Died: December 4
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Hanover
Germany
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In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
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Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.
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Bureaucracy, the rule of nobody.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.
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The business of thinking ... undoes every morning what it had finished the night before.
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