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Basic Quotes by Milan Kundera
- For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
- Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The criminal regimes were…
- She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.
- To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man…
- Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of…
- ... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic…
- Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1)…
- This is the image from which he was born...... Characters are not born, like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence,…
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- Be in harmony with the Tao, with the basic principles of creation. To not be in harmony with that flow, no matter… — Frederick Lenz
- It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi
- I think in the end there are only 20 or 30 tenets of basic cooking. It's going at perhaps the same issue… — Alton Brown
- The divine life is the spirit in everything that exists, from the atom to the archangel; the grain of dust could not… — Annie Besant
- If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a… — Dalai Lama
- These are the only two situations possible, and you are in the sad situation. Everybody may know about you - who you… — Rajneesh
- It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,'… — Albert Einstein