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Longer Quotes by Milan Kundera
- At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which…
- Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
- 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…
- Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have…
- But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.
- 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?…
- Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and…
- The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as…
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