Human Condition Quotes
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Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.
Hannah Arendt
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To aspiring writers, I say : Don't give up. Storytelling has been an integral part of the human condition since the beginning of time. Don't let anyone tell you your dreams don't have value. They do.
Beverly Jenkins
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He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.
Albert Camus
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Good families are generally worse than any others.
Anthony Hope
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The human condition comprehends more than the condition under which life has been given to man. Men are conditioned beings because everything they come in contact with turns immediately into a condition of their existence. The world in which the vita activa spends itself consists of things produced by human activities; but the things that owe their existence exclusively to men nevertheless constantly condition their human makers.
Hannah Arendt
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Literary fiction is fiction that examines the character of the people involved in the story, and that popular fiction is driven by plot. Whereas popular fiction, I tell them, is meant primarily as a means of escape, one way or another, from this present life, a kind of book equivalent of comfort food, literary fiction confronts us with who we are and makes us look deeply at the human condition.
Bret Lott
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Setting clear goals and finding measures that will mark progress toward them can improve the human condition.
Bill Gates
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The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.
Blaise Pascal
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If a man has lived in a tradition which tells him that nothing can be done about his human condition, to believe that progress is possible may well be the greatest revolution of all.
Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
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Innovation is a good thing. The human condition - put aside bioterrorism and a few footnotes - is improving because of innovation.
Bill Gates
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I guess I really enjoy movies that have to do with human conditions and maybe based a little bit more in reality, so I think I would say romance.
Boti Bliss
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It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance.
Emile Chartier