It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the h — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the h — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the h — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the h — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the h — Hannah Arendt
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded in the history of mankind stays with mankind as a potentiality long after its actuality has become a thing of the past.

— Hannah Arendt
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