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Them Quotes by Milan Kundera
- 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;…
- No episode is a priori condemned to remain an episode forever, for every event, no matter how trivial, conceals within itself the possibility of sooner…
- The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.…
- How did the senator know that children meant happiness? Could he see into their souls? What if the moment they were out of sight, three…
- 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…
- If hatred strikes you, if you get accused, thrown to the lions, you can expect one of two reactions from people who know you: some…
- Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals…
- Tereza had gone back to sleep; he could not. He pictured her death. She was dead and having terrible nightmares; but because she was dead,…
- 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…
- His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner…
- The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.…
- I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30)
- ...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for…
- ...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender…
- She had come to him to escape her mother's world, a world where all bodies were equal. She had come to him to make her…
- While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it together…
- I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.
- The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.
- 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:…
- 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…
- This is the image from which he was born...... Characters are not born, like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence,…
More Them Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Stories surge up out of nowhere, and if they feel compelling, you follow them. You let them unfold inside you and see… — Paul Auster