“Although everybody started his life by inserting himself into the human world through action and speech, nobody is the author or producer of his own life story... Somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense of the word, namely, its actor and sufferer, but nobody is its author.”
More from Hannah Arendt
“Heidegger lies notoriously always and everywhere, and whenever he can.”
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“Only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core.”