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Us Quotes by Milan Kundera
- 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…
- If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his or her own repertory of…
- Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.
- Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of amorous delights judge…
- 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…
- Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
- Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
- Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear…
- People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.…
- Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute.…
- The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes…
- 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…
- The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after…
- 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…
- Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that…
- The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of…
- When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has…
- The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.
- If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee…
- We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live…
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- It is the people closest to us, that are capable of hurting us most. — Nishan Panwar
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few:… — Pope Francis
- Life may burn us, it's how we rise out of the ashes that define our character. — Nishan Panwar
- Dreams are what keep us going when real life lets us down. — Nishan Panwar
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino