"But which was the real me? Let me……" — Milan Kundera
"But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)"
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381 Quotes by Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera has 381 quotes on this site.
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Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to…
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Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink…
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People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void…
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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
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There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.
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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
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War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they…
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There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the…
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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
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The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.
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We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our…
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The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
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The faces I see in the modeling industry can get dull.
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One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about…
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If I can't face my accusers, that's a joke. We did that in medieval times.
— Lance Armstrong
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I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's…
— Neil Armstrong
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I accepted the face that as much as I want to lead others, and love to be around other people,…
— Arthur Ashe
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It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
— Francis of Assisi
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The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.
— Fred Astaire
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Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do with…
— Margaret Atwood
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Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.
— Kevyn Aucoin
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My face looks like a wedding-cake left out in the rain.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
— Diane Ackerman
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