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Oblivion Quotes by Milan Kundera
- Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.
- In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it…
More Oblivion Quotes
- There is reason to suspect, that the distinctions of mankind have more show than value, when it is found that all agree… — Samuel Johnson
- An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many… — Robert Fulton
- If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows… — Fernando Pessoa
- The panorama-city is a 'theoretical' (that is, visual) simulacrum, in short a picture, whose condition of possibility is an oblivion and a… — Michel de Certeau
- Since fame is an illusion and death is in our future all we have is the next moment before we are swallowed… — Al Goldstein
- As I see it, life is an effort to grip before they slip through one's fingers and slide into oblivion, the startling,… — Mervyn Peake
- There are many great authors of the past who have survived centuries of oblivion and neglect, but it is still an open… — Hannah Arendt