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Past Quotes by Milan Kundera
- 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,…
- Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events;…
- The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the…
- The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
- We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realize what we've been through…
- People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.…
- Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To…
- We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually experiencing. Only later…
- The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said?…
- Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no…
- Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and…
- And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or…
- You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every…
- To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and…
More Past Quotes
- There Is No Value Of What You Did In Past, Show Your Best Part Today. Everyone Wants To Read Today's Newspaper Coz… — Ritu Ghatourey
- Most important thing in life is to keep moving irrespective of the facts that you r hurt u r broken or betrayed… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- You never know what will be your future. So stop worrying about future. Enjoy every bit of your life forgetting about what… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Never regret your past, the only thing you should regret is the time you've wasted with the wrong people. — Nishan Panwar
- If You Translate Every Mistake Of Your Life Into a 'Positive' One, You Will Never Be A 'Prisoner Of Your Past', .… — Ritu Ghatourey
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — David Attenborough
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius