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Modern Quotes by Milan Kundera
- You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
- If hatred strikes you, if you get accused, thrown to the lions, you can expect one of two reactions from people who know you: some…
- From the top of the staircase she sees the London train, modern and elegant, and she tells herself again: Whether it's good luck or bad…
- 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?…
- Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away…
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- Insurance - an ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is… — Ambrose Bierce
- Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else. — Cate Blanchett
- The year 2008 was a reminder to those who had forgotten that there is such a thing as history and that the… — James Buchan
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