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Ideas Quotes by Milan Kundera
- Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that…
- People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
- A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the…
- loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.
- The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after…
- We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is…
- Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.
- 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…
- 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?…
- There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely. All the sadness…
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