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Meaning Quotes by Milan Kundera
- A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects…
- The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after…
- It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life…
- We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later…
- Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.
- 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…
- In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her:…
- 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…
- 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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- I've never been convinced that experience is linear, circular, or even random. It just is. I try to put it in some… — Toni Cade Bambara