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Way Quotes by Milan Kundera
- Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or…
- War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one…
- People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud of myself. I…
- By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, "it," he paved the way for other words, words that would…
- The young man called the waiter and paid. Then he got up and said to the girl: 'We're going.' Where to?' The girl feigned surprise.…
- 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…
- 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…
- From the top of the staircase she sees the London train, modern and elegant, and she tells herself again: Whether it's good luck or bad…
- ...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…
- The psychological and physiological mechanism of love is so complex that at a certain period in his life a young man must concentrate all his…
- 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…
- A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a legend of itself,…
- 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…
- She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was…
- And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or…
- ...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too…
More Way Quotes
- If you are interested in Taoism, I would suggest that you read the Way of Life by Lao Tsu, the founder of… — Frederick Lenz
- I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways. — William Shakespeare
- The parents have to learn that the child should not be insulted, humiliated, condemned. If you want to help him, love him… — Rajneesh
- The essence of Taoism is really expressed by these few words. Taoism is the way of the child, the way of the… — Frederick Lenz
- It's no accident, I think, that tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love, the basic elements of tennis… — Andre Agassi
- Do you know how much you mean to me? Do you know that you are the first thing I think of when… — Superman
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle