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Other 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…
- This is the real and the only reason for friendship: to provide a mirror so the other person can contemplate his image from the past,…
- No episode is a priori condemned to remain an episode forever, for every event, no matter how trivial, conceals within itself the possibility of sooner…
- In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.
- The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a…
- The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
- Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.
- Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear…
- By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, "it," he paved the way for other words, words that would…
- Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have…
- The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the…
- To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first weeks of their…
- The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of…
- In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off…
- Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are…
- The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.
- 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…
- Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)
- The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is…
- She had come to him to escape her mother's world, a world where all bodies were equal. She had come to him to make her…
More Other Quotes
- . . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.… — Norman Vincent Peale
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Friendship is not only about sharing each and everything having long conversation, hanging out, its about having complete trust in each other… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle