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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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Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence of past events but when it comes to how we experienced them at the time, memory feels no obligation to truth.
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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.
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I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.
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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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The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.
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Remembering now all those farewells (fake farewells, worked-up farewells), Irena thinks: a person who messes up her goodbyes shouldn’t expect much from her re-unions.
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