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Passion Quotes by Milan Kundera
- Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.
- 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…
- 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…
- Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but…
- But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.
- Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste…
More Passion Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
- Our passion is our strength. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of… — Annie Besant
- Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present… — Samuel Johnson
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams