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Persons 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…
- The eye the point where a person's identity is concentrated.
- 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.
- A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture,…
- 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.
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- We tend to become what the most important person in our life thinks we will become. Think the best, believe the best,… — John C. Maxwell
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- You must also remember that the world has God to govern it, and He has not left it to our charity. The… — Swami Vivekananda
- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- Ji-li's deeply moving story should be on the shelf of every person's library. Her courage in the face of adversity and her… — Nien Cheng
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle