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Longing Quotes by Milan Kundera
- Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.
- Happiness is the longing for repetition.
- Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
- He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking…
- 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…
- 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.
- The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
- High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of…
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