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• What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.

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  Lying, Mean, Doe

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• Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

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  Men, Immortality, Old Man

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• The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.

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  Character, Meditation, Existence

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• The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next day, while the river flows on.

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  Play, Rivers, Next Day

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• Facts mean little compared to attitudes. To contradict rumor or sentiment is as futile as arguing against a believer's faith in the Immaculate Conception. You have simply become a victim of faith, Comrade Assistant.

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  Attitude, Mean, Rumor

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

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  Reality, People, Deaf

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• He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

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  Anger, Conflict, Intimidating

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• True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

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  Animal, Compassion, Unbearable Lightness Of Being

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists in being useless.

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  Mean, People, Doe

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• The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.

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  Character, Borders, Possibility

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• To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

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  Writing, Mean, Doe

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• Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled; on the contrary; in the form of a quiet nostalgia she remained constantly within me; I longed for her as one longs for something definitively lost.

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  Mean, Nostalgia, Quiet

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• we might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. he is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down.

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  Fall, Men, Squares

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• Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.

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  Relationship, Sex, Facts

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• she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

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  Book, Unbearable, Arms

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• given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog...It is a completely selfless love.

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  Dog, Couple, Men

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• Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and fanatically believe but only half understand. And history is terrible because it so often ends up a playground for the immature; a playground for the young Nero, a playground for the young Bonaparte, a playground for the easily roused mobs of children whose simulated passions and simplistic poses suddenly metamorphose into a catastrophically real reality.

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  Children, Real, Believe

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• Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

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  Possibility, Existence, Acquire

  "Slowness". Book by Milan Kundera, 1995.

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• The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is an illusion: in reality it is a brute revolt against a brutal violence, an effort to free our own ear from bondage and to occupy the enemy's ear by force. Because all of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ear of others.

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  Reality, Men, Echoes

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• Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Animal

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• Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor

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  Love Is, Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Metaphor

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• No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

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  Kitsch, Matter, Human Condition

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• Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

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  Relationship, Love Is, Violence

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.

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  Noise, Advantage

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• The young man called the waiter and paid. Then he got up and said to the girl: 'We're going.' Where to?' The girl feigned surprise. Don't ask, just come on,' said the young man. Is that any way to talk to me?' It's the way I talk to whores.

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  Girl, Men, Way

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