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May Quotes by Milan Kundera
- Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However contemptible the world…
- No episode is a priori condemned to remain an episode forever, for every event, no matter how trivial, conceals within itself the possibility of sooner…
- A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the…
- The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists'…
- 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…
- Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To…
- 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…
- Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling…
More May Quotes
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- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May. — William Shakespeare
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt