I never fail to be moved by knowing that the ground on which I walk is layered with the past- with achievement and strife and the repeated passions and conflicts of the human creature, always changing, always the same. Generations passing like grass.
It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different… - Eva Hoffman
It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different…
- Eva Hoffman
The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence. - Eva Hoffman
The authentic is almost never found by being pursued; but there is no missing it when you are in its presence.
There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face. - Eva Hoffman
There is nothing like a gleam of humor to reassure you that a fellow human being is ticking inside a strange face.
The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't. - Eva Hoffman
The vision of an entire world becoming just like us is at least as discomfiting as the thought that most of it won't.
While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authentici… - Eva Hoffman
While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authentici…
Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased. - Eva Hoffman
Perhaps, if we don't always have a conscious conscience, we have a subliminal one, from which the memory of past wrongs is not so easily erased.
Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction. - Eva Hoffman
Why look any further if you've discovered complete satisfaction.
The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy. - Eva Hoffman
The more words I have, the more distinct, precise my perceptions become--and such lucidity is a form of joy.
The worst losses come at night. - Eva Hoffman
The worst losses come at night.
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