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Best One Quotes by Milan Kundera
- The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.…
- ...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for…
- We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave…
- ... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic…
- Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given…
- Even at the age of eight she would fall asleep by pressing one hand into the other and making believe she was holding the hand…
- 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…
- I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who…
- But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.
- When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have…
- The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm…
- Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less…
- Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.
- Through the air floated only important words, and Flajsman said to himself that love has but one true measure, and that is death. At the…
- No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise.…
- If I had two lives, in one life I could invite her to stay at my place, and in the second life I could kick…
- She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was…
- The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of…
- Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a…
- I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable…
- If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo,…
- Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.
- 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…
- In eroticism as dance: one of the partners is always charged with leading the other.
- Until that time, her betrayals had filled her with excitement and joy, because they opened up new paths to new adventures of betrayal. But what…
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle