"In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several……" — Gary Shteyngart

"In the first few pages, Kundera discusses several abstract historical figures: Robespierre, Nietzsche, Hitler. For Eunice's sake, I wanted him to get to the plot, to introduce actual "living" characters - I recalled this was a love story - and to leave the world of ideas behind. Here we were, two people lying in bed, Eunice's worried head propped on my collarbone, and I wanted us to feel something in common. I wanted this complex language, this surge of intellect, to be processed into love. Isn't that how they used to do it a century ago, people reading poetry to one another?"

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To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. — Honore de Balzac
I was a really lousy artist as a kid. Too abstract expressionist; or I'd draw a big ram's head, really… — Jean-Michel Basquiat
In the abstract conception of universal wrong, all concrete responsibility vanishes. — Theodor Adorno
None of the abstract concepts comes closer to fulfilled utopia than that of eternal peace. — Theodor Adorno
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Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still… — Nicolas Cage
I am searching for abstract ways of expressing reality, abstract forms that will enlighten my own mystery. — Eric Cantona
Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. — Al Capp
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change… — Saul Alinsky
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Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply… — John Dewey
It is difficult to talk about fashion in the abstract, without a human body before my eyes, without drawings, without… — Giorgio Armani

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