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Mean Quotes by Milan Kundera
- Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed to the image…
- In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.
- Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.
- We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realize what we've been through…
- To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
- From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offence imaginable. But what is betrayal?Â…Betrayal means breaking ranks…
- Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.
- There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning,…
- For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye…
- The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
- Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has…
- The day after his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that her shoes did…
- But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility…
- Facts mean little compared to attitudes. To contradict rumor or sentiment is as futile as arguing against a believer's faith in the Immaculate Conception. You…
- When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but that the world is turning into…
- 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?…
- Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the…
- What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.
- 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…
- While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it together…
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