"If our planet has seen some eighty billion……" — Milan Kundera
"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 gestures. Arithmetically, it is simply impossible. Without the slightest doubt, there are far fewer gestures in the world than there are individuals. That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion: a gesture is more individual than an individual. We could put it in the form of an aphorism: many people, few gestures."
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Milan Kundera
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381 Quotes by Milan Kundera
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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
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The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
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