When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.
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Aphorisms by Milan Kundera
She said: "I get scared when my eye blinks. Scared that during that second when my gaze is switched off, a snake or a rat or another man could slip into your place."
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
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You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
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For the first few seconds, she was afraid he would throw her out because of the crude noises she was making, but then he put his arms around her. She was grateful to him for ignoring her rumbles, and she kissed him passionately, her eyes misting.
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The eye: the point where a person's identity is concentrated.
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The proliferation of mass graphomania among politicians, cab drivers, women on the delivery table, mistresses, murderers, criminals, prostitutes, police chiefs, doctors, and patients proves to me that every individual without exception bears a potential writer within himself and that all mankind has every right to rush out into the streets with a cry of "We are all writers!"
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Life)
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
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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 of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten.
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Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
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