"We can never know what to want, because,……" — Milan Kundera
"We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come."
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381 Quotes by Milan Kundera
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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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