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One Quotes by Milan Kundera
- War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one…
- 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 characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.…
- The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.
- Mankind's real moral test, a test so radical and so deep that it escapes our gaze, is probably the one of its relations with those…
- Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great…
- Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.
- No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two…
- Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.
- There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified…
- Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
- I have no mission. No one has.
- We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in…
- He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking…
- He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.
- 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…
- Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt…
- The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good…
- Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals…
- Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we…
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster