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Common Quotes by Milan Kundera
- Common European thought is the fruit of the immense toil of translators. Without translators, Europe would not exist; translators are more important than members of…
- Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
- He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely…
- What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns towards me, what…
- I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.
- What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes…
- Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us back into our…
More Common Quotes
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- The primary quality that Lao Tzu seems to emobdy is humility, which is the image of water - seeking the common level… — Frederick Lenz
- Water always seeks the easiest path, the common level of life. — Frederick Lenz
- She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths… — Sri Aurobindo
- I have often thought that there has rarely passed a life of which a judicious and faithful narrative would not be useful;… — Samuel Johnson
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of… — Samuel Johnson
- I think we can provide common-sense approaches to the issue of illegal guns that are ending up on the streets. We can… — Barack Obama