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Woman Quotes by Milan Kundera
- Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed to the image…
- 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…
- In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.
- The important thing is to abide by the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again,…
- Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into…
- A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you…
- 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…
- Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt…
- Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by…
- To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.
- Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would…
- ... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic…
- Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist…
- 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…
- She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.
- When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (they all stop at the same spots to kiss, have…
- What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns towards me, what…
- given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at…
- 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,…
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- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
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- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
- No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it… — Jane Austen
- Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better… — Jane Austen
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