"Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed."
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"It is not human to be without shame and without desire."
"Till Human voices wake us, and we drown."
"Human character is just endlessly fascinating, and there is no character who is one thing any more than any one person is just one thing. As you work on a character, he/she is revealed more and more. That's what I continue to love about the work."
"I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being."
"There is so much to the human mind we don't understand. But, you see, if you have faith, you can do anything."
"Our ability to know about ourselves and the world is what makes us human"
"God Tris, are you even human?"
"Take your well-disciplined strengths, stretch them between the two great opposing poles, because inside human beings is where God learns."
"We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted."
"Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them."
"To divinise is human, to humanise is divine."
"Just because as human beings, what we can't have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep."
"The purpose of computers is human freedom."
"The French woman says, 'I am a woman and a Parisienne, and nothing foreign to me appears altogether human.'"
"Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind."
"Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself."
"For me, the glory of the human animal is cognitive activity."
"The present is never a happy state to any human being."
"We scarcely wish to analyse what we feel to be so large and deeply human."