"Love is the longing for the half of…" — Milan Kundera
"Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost."
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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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Well begun is half done.
— Aristotle
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Monty Python crowd; half of them came from Cambridge, and half of them came from Oxford. But, there seems to…
— Rowan Atkinson
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I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored.
— David Attenborough
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I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel…
— David Attenborough
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
— Marcus Aurelius
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To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment.
— Jane Austen
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One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.
— Jane Austen
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I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
— Teresa of Avila
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The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible;…
— Charles Babbage
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My first band, Kid Wicked, we did half covers and half originals.
— Sebastian Bach
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One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access…
— Michelle Bachelet
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A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
— Francis Bacon
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