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Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

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Love, Beautiful, Two

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Every love relationship rests on an unwritten agreement unthinkingly concluded by the lovers in the first weeks of their love. They are still in a kind of dream but at the same time, without knowing it, are drawing up, like uncompromising lawyers, the detailed clauses of their contract. O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

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Dream, Betrayal, Drawing

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The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

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Men, Paradise, Longing

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As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.

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Choices, Unhappy, Desolation

"Identity". Book by Milan Kundera, 1998.

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The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.

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Purpose, Dazzle, Unbearable

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Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?

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Men, Desire, World

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Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.

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Memories, Children, Past

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But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

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Writing

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Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.

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Flirting, Promise, Guarantees

"Nesnesitelna lehkost byti (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.

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Goal, Suffering, Unbearable

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a man possessed with peace is always smiling

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Men, Always Smile, Possessed

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You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.

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Past, Thinking, Different

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Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.

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Looks, Plunge, Young

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Totalitarianism is neither left nor right, and within its empire both will perish. I was never a believer, but after seeing Czech Catholics persecuted during the Stalinist terror, I felt the deepest solidarity with them. What separated us, the belief in God, was secondary to what united us. In Prague, they hanged the Socialists and the priests. Thus a fraternity of the hanged was born.

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Catholic, Prague, Empires

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Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.

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Sacrifice, Broken, Today

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Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.

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Crazy, Love Is, Crazy Love

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Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does nothing worse than incite its fans to urinate in all innocence, to gain weight in all frankness?

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Funny, Beer, Hypocrisy

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I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.

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Hate, Common

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Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like a little song. A song sung by a forest... within a forest... a thousand years ago.

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Song, Baby, Sleep

"Fictional character: Tomas". "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", www.imdb.com. February 5, 1988.

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When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.

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Hard Times, Faces, Sincere

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Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.

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Love Is, Desire, Half

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Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

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Art, Passion, Mean

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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.

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People, Want, Void

"The Book of Laughter and Forgetting". Book by Milan Kundera, 1980.

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Speak truth to power.

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Speak, Speak The Truth

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The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self. In intense suffering the world disappears and each of us is alone with his self. Suffering is the university of ego-centrism.

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Cat, Unique, Self

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