"I understood that there was no escaping the……" — Milan Kundera
"I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30)"
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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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More Escaping Quotes
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Like all young reporters - brilliant or hopelessly incompetent - I dreamed of the glamorous life of the foreign correspondent:…
— Russell Baker
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We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means…
— Charles Baudelaire
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It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it.…
— Joseph Addison
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I'm the kind of actor who has ventured into escaping from me.
— Helena Bonham Carter
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Slaves lose everything in their chains, even the desire of escaping from them.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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They're not supposed to show prison films in prison. Especially ones that are about escaping.
— Steve Buscemi
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We find it hard to picture to ourselves the state of mind of a man of older days who firmly…
— Anatole France
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We all share one planet and are one hummanity, there is no escaping this reality.
— Wangari Maathai
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Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals…
— Charles Lyell
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I have never done anything 'useful'. No discovery of mine has made, or is likely to make, directly or indirectly,…
— G. H. Hardy
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You cannot stop smoking directly because it has many related things, implications. You are tense, and if you stop smoking…
— Rajneesh
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Now the first step has to be taken, the step towards democracy. This step is full of risks, and requires…
— Daniel Barenboim
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