"Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light,……" — Milan Kundera
"Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness."
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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 Blinds Quotes
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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
— John Perry Barlow
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Ever since I was a girl, I have written about one to five pages every day - on napkins, on…
— Roseanne Barr
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Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
— Albert Camus
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Are we to look at cherry blossoms only in full bloom, the moon only when it is cloudless? To long…
— Yoshida Kenko
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Ambition is to the mind what the cap is to the falcon; it blinds us first, and then compels us…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Your honor blinds you, Tempus, to what's right and wrong these days.
— Janet Morris
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The devil does not bring sinners to hell with their eyes open: he first blinds them with the malice of…
— Alphonsus Liguori
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Not only is science corrosive to religion, but religion is corrosive to science. It teaches people to be satisfied with…
— Richard Dawkins
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Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!
— H. Rider Haggard
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Learning is, in too many cases, but a foil to common sense; a substitute for true knowledge. Books are less…
— William Hazlitt
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Is it worth while to observe that there are no Venetian blinds in Venice?
— William Dean Howells
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I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see…
— William Faulkner
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