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- she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for…
- We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is…
- Every love relationship rests on an unwritten agreement unthinkingly concluded by the lovers in the first weeks of their love. They are still in a…
- 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…
- This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only…
- 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…
- When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have…
- She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We…
- The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.
- In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her:…
- In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it…
- High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of…
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- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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- Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet… — Friedrich Nietzsche
- I don't want to convert people to Buddhism — all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good. — Dalai Lama
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