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Doe Quotes by Milan Kundera
- Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does nothing worse than…
- The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.
- Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of amorous delights judge…
- Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.
- Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what…
- A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
- To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
- Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt…
- And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is…
- But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility…
- The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said?…
- What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.
- To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far…
- The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.
- It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which…
- Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling…
- For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability.
More Doe Quotes
- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Lao Tsu uses the anology of the tree. The old hard tree breaks and falls when the wind blows. The young tree… — Frederick Lenz
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas… — Margaret Atwood