"When we ignore the body, we are more……" — Milan Kundera

"When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it."

— Milan Kundera

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381 Quotes by Milan Kundera

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Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to…
Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink…
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void…
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they…
There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the…
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.
We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our…
The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure… — Aristotle
If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the… — M H Abrams
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail… — Johann Arndt
Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds… — Mary Astell
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
Perception is reality. — Lee Atwater
I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do… — John James Audubon
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All… — Saint Augustine

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