from Hannah Arendt

"the most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

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"most evil is done
by people who never make up their minds
to be either good or evil"

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"what guides poetic thinking is the conviction that although the living is subject to the ruin of time, the process of decay is at the same time a process of crystallization, that in the depth of the sea, into which sinks and is dissolved what once was alive, some things “suffer a sea-change” and survive in new crystallized forms and shapes that remain immune to the elements, as though they waited only for the pearl diver who one day will come down to them and bring them up into the world of the living"

Hannah Arendt