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Milan Kundera has 384 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits…
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Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does…
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People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no…
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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
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There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.
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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
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War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be…
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There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the…
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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
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The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.
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We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at…
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The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
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Now the melancholy God protect thee, and the tailor make thy garments of changeable taffeta, for thy mind is opal.
— William Shakespeare
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There is no sound more feminine than a woman in a taffeta dress.
— Oscar de la Renta
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I stand and listen to people speaking french in the stores and in the street. It's such a pert, crisp language, elegant…
— Belva Plain
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There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta,…
— Denise Levertov
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a pink taffeta evening gown. It looked like it had run away from a junior high prom... The dress looked like a…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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In the time of swords and periwigs and full-skirted coats with flowered lappets - when gentlemen wore ruffles, and gold-laced waistcoats of…
— Beatrix Potter
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Sometimes she wore Levi's with white-suede fringe sewn down the legs and a feathered Indian headdress, sometimes old fifties' taffeta dresses covered…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and…
— William Shakespeare
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You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored…
— Milan Kundera
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