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I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
Milan Kundera
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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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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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A man able to think isn't defeated - even when he is defeated.
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Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.
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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 fas
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But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.
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Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom even in a game is a trap for the players.
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All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.
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The beauty of New York is unintentional it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.
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... characters are not born like people, of woman they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.
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