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Firsts Quotes by Milan Kundera
- The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books,…
- Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into…
- Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to…
- And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
- The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes…
- There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning,…
- Every love relationship rests on an unwritten agreement unthinkingly concluded by the lovers in the first weeks of their love. They are still in a…
- The day after his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that her shoes did…
- To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first weeks of their…
- Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear…
- A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a legend of itself,…
- Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you.…
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