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• How did the senator know that children meant happiness? Could he see into their souls? What if the moment they were out of sight, three of them jumped the fourth and began beating him up?

  Milan Kundera

  Children, Sight, Soul

  "Light but sound" by John Banville, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2004.

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• The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse.

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  Horse, Men, Order

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• This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only on condition that you refrain from reading such notions as "fictive," "fabricated," and "untrue to life" into the word "novelistic." Because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion.

  Milan Kundera

  Fashion, Reading, May

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• Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives,
  but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's.

  Milan Kundera

  Marriage, Sex, Thinking

  "Revenge of the pygmies" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. June 24, 2000.

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• She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.

  Milan Kundera

  Body, Passionate, Surface

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)

  Milan Kundera

  Real, Men, Faces

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• Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.

  Milan Kundera

  Women, Events, Action

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• The day after his father left, Franz and his mother went into town together, and as they left home Franz noticed that her shoes did not match. He was in a quandary: he wanted to point out the mistake, but was afraid he would hurt her. So, during the two hours they spent walking through the city together he kept his eyes focused on her feet. It was then he had his first inkling of what it means to suffer.

  Milan Kundera

  Mother, Hurt, Father

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• The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and so she said, 'You're very good at lying.' 'Do I look like a liar?' 'You look like you enjoy lying to women,' said the girl, and into her words there crept unawares a touch of the old anxiety, because she really did believe that her young man enjoyed lying to women.

  Milan Kundera

  Girl, Liars, Lying

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• Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.

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  Jealousy, Touching, Quality

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same; we feel that Beethoven himself, gloomy and awe-inspiring, is playing the “Es muss sein!” to our own great love.

  Milan Kundera

  Love Is, Light, Hands

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• High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor . . .

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  Children, Race, Generations

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• In eroticism as dance: one of the partners is always charged with leading the other.

  Milan Kundera

  Dance, Partners

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• I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30)

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  Memories, Escaping, Understood

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• Through the air floated only important words, and Flajsman said to himself that love has but one true measure, and that is death. At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.

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  Love Is, Air, Important

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• There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

  Milan Kundera

  Love Is, Violence, Unbearable Lightness Of Being

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• The rediscovered path, where were left the traces of childhood's lost steps.

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  Childhood, Path, Steps

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• Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but to create a world of his own lines on paper." (pp.28-29)

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  Artist, Roles, World

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• Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.

  Milan Kundera

  Beauty, Art, Matter

  "James Joyce, the Citizen and the Artist". Book by Charles Peake, 1977.

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• He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.

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  Lying, Bed, Former Life

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

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• The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul.

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  Soul, Body, Cages

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• She had come to him to escape her mother's world, a world where all bodies were equal. She had come to him to make her body unique, irreplaceble. But he, too had drawn an equal sign between her and the rest of them: he kissed them all alike, stroked them all alike, made no, absolutely no distiction between Tereza's body and the other bodies. He sent her back to the world she tried to escape, sent to march naked with the other naked women

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  Mother, Unique, Naked

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• Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.

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  Sides, Uniforms, Nudity

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• By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, "it," he paved the way for other words, words that would reflect physical love as in a set of mirrors.

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  Mirrors, Names, Giving

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• The best actors do not let the wheels show.

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  Funny, Humorous, Acting

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