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Life Sayings by Milan Kundera
- 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…
- His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner…
- In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off…
- From the top of the staircase she sees the London train, modern and elegant, and she tells herself again: Whether it's good luck or bad…
- Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of…
- We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave…
- Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given…
- But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life!…
- Even at the age of eight she would fall asleep by pressing one hand into the other and making believe she was holding the hand…
- The psychological and physiological mechanism of love is so complex that at a certain period in his life a young man must concentrate all his…
- Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away…
- But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.
- The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is…
- Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun…
- 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…
- The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.
- 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.…
- When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is…
- In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her:…
- If I had two lives, in one life I could invite her to stay at my place, and in the second life I could kick…
- 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…
- Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1)…
- For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women.…
- I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree,…
- Love is basically like leaches .... They suck until they cant get enough of you. Until you find a catapillar that will turn into the…
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle