"Living, there is no happiness in that. Living:……" — Milan Kundera
"Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain."
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381 Quotes by Milan Kundera
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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
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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 reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
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