Very little and a great deal

There is very little "history." There is a great deal of historical narrative.

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The ideal subject (Arendt)

The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (standards of thought) no longer exist.

Hannah Arendt

First of next

We are not last, we are first. We are first of next.

What would it be like

What would it be like to want nothing that others didn't want you to want?

More than mere

There is more to the unsatisfactory than mere inadequacy.

Otherwise

Why desire something not to have been when you can want it to be otherwise than it was?

Little

A person knows little of little-known persons.

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It started

It started as stated.

It is hard

It is hard to believe that the world works on your behalf; it is hard to accept that it doesn't.

I need to improve

I need to improve my ability to improve.

Be

Be sincere, not earnest.

One is

One is always almost and almost always.

We are

We are hint-engines.

For one

I, for one, must defy the indefinitely definite.

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Seeks

The one who needs more seeks most.

I know

I know that I knew that I would know.

By which we sense

Thought is a sense by which we sense the sense of the senses.