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Best Man Quotes by Milan Kundera
- a man possessed with peace is always smiling
- Is not parody the eternal lot of man?
- Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist…
- 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…
- She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.
- 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…
- Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.
- She knew, of course that she was being supremely unfair, that Franz was the best man she ever had- he was intelligent, he understood her…
- Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know the present? Is he in a…
- A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.
- She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.
- given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at…
- 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…
- Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us back into our…
- Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.
- The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of…
- No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise.…
- The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
- A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too…
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle
- Hope is the dream of a waking man. — Aristotle
- Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. — Aristotle