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Person 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,…
- 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…
- Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what…
- 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…
- A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
- Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has…
- It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life…
- Pick me up," is the message of a person who keeps falling. Tomas kept picking her up, patiently.
- To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far…
- Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know the present? Is he in a…
- What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes…
- Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling…
- Remembering now all those farewells (fake farewells, worked-up farewells), Irena thinks: a person who messes up her goodbyes shouldn’t expect much from her re-unions.
- How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is…
- Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.
More Person Quotes
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear… — Lance Armstrong
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky