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World 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…
- Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However contemptible the world…
- 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…
- The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question,
- The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.…
- In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.
- The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
- 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…
- No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
- The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on…
- Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.
- He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking…
- The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become
- But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility…
- The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches…
- His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner…
- 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…
- He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely…
- When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but that the world is turning into…
- Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but…
More World Quotes
- 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
- That said, the question remains: how to strike the balance between free speech and mutual respect in this mixed-up world, both blessed… — Timothy Garton Ash
- When I immersed myself in prayer and united myself with all the Masses that were being celebrated all over the world at… — Mary Faustina Kowalska
- I learned one most important thing in my life. That nonody in this whole world can understand you correctly. Except yourself. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Being a honest n nice person is most difficult thing in this world. As nobody likes the company of a person that… — Anurag Prakash Ray
- There is Nothing in this world. Which cannot be achieved. If you have the guts to do everything which it will take. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello