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Time Quotes by Milan Kundera
- He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
- A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects…
- 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;…
- 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…
- Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.
- At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to everyone, before which…
- Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great…
- The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists'…
- Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness…
- There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments…
- And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is…
- The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human species has good…
- For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is…
- 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…
- Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his…
- 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…
- In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and was cut off…
- We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave…
- Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to…
- Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun…
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- Throughout all of this confusion, I hope I somehow get to you. I practice all the things I'd say to tell you… — Superman
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- Never regret your past, the only thing you should regret is the time you've wasted with the wrong people. — Nishan Panwar
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each… — Antonin Artaud