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Ends Quotes by Milan Kundera
- Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
- War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one…
- The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
- People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
- The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.…
- Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.
- In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.
- At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.
- Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end." Love is a battle?" said Franz. "Well,…
- This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only…
- Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would…
- Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but…
- Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste…
- Through the air floated only important words, and Flajsman said to himself that love has but one true measure, and that is death. At the…
- Until that time, her betrayals had filled her with excitement and joy, because they opened up new paths to new adventures of betrayal. But what…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by… — Swami Vivekananda
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I… — Diane Ackerman
- It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between. — Diane Ackerman