in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
When the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.
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Quotes by Milan Kundera
The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful.
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This is the real and the only reason for friendship: to provide a mirror so the other person can contemplate his image from the past, which, without the eternal blah-blah of memories between pals, would long ago have disappeared.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
The fact that until recently the word "shit" appeared in print as s— has nothing to do with moral considerations. You can't claim that shit is immoral, after all! The objection to shit is a metaphysical one. The daily defecation session is daily proof of the unacceptability of Creation.
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The moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
"Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said.
"Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.
"Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end."
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But is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about?
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Of a world that rests essentially on the nonexistence of return, [...] everything is pardoned in advance and therefore everything cynically permitted.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Moods)
How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present?
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
He felt as if she no longer existed for him, had gone off somewhere, into some other life where, if he should meet her, he would no longer recognize her.
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