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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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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.
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Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.
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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
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Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.
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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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Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.
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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
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On the surface, an intelligible lie underneath, the unintelligible truth.
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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.
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Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.
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Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.
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