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Individual Quotes by Milan Kundera
- If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his or her own repertory of…
- Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.
- 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…
- Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
- Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness…
- When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have…
- We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice…
- Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less…
- 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…
- A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture,…
- Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1)…
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- Whom God legally saves, He experimentally saves; whom He justifies, them He also sanctifies. Where the righteousness of Christ is imputed to… — Arthur W. Pink
- Minority is about being an individual. It's like you have to sift through the darkness to find your place and be that… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core… — Isaac Asimov