"Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty……" — Milan Kundera
"Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love."
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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 Courtyard Quotes
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Weep like the waterwheel, that green herbs may spring up from the courtyard of your soul. If you wish for…
— Rumi
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Maketa Groves has a strong, bright lyric gift. Her poems come out of music and are full of music. They…
— Diane di Prima
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No matter how advanced society becomes, institutionally or technologically, a house in which nature can be sensed represents for me…
— Tadao Ando
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Beyond the fence the forest stood up spectrally in the moonlight, and through the dim stir, through the faint sounds…
— Joseph Conrad
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If your ceiling should fall down, then you have lost a room, but gained a courtyard. Think of it that…
— Alexander McCall Smith
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In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is…
— Donald Judd
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The rustling of the silk is discontinued, Dust drifts over the courtyard, There is not sound of footfall, and the…
— Ezra Pound
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Let the radiance of my enthusiasms envelop the poor courtyard and the bare classroom. Let my heart be a stronger…
— Gabriela Mistral
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There's no peace like the peace of an inner courtyard on a sunny day.
— Yann Martel
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You can find your way across this country using burger joint the way a navigatior uses stars....We have munched Bridge…
— Charles Kuralt
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I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats…
— Alan Rickman
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Suddenly, I became conscious of the fact that the driver was in the act of pulling up the horses in…
— Bram Stoker
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