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Word Quotes by Milan Kundera
- 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…
- 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 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 no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning,…
- The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
- This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only…
- 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…
- 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…
- The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as…
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