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Lies Quotes by Milan Kundera
- The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and…
- The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
- Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.…
- The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
- 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…
- For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye…
- It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life…
- Dreaming is not merely an act of communication (or coded communication, if you like); it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination,…
- If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee…
- And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or…
- 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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- Between the daylight gambler and the player at night there is the same difference that lies between a careless husband and the… — Honore de Balzac