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La memoria no guarda películas, guarda fotografías.

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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.
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Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.
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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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Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.
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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 characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.
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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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The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.
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Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.
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Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
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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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Art arises from sources other than logic. (p.32)
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loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.
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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 pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said? How can anyone state categorically that a thought he once had is no longer valid? In modern times an idea can be refuted, yes, but not retracted.
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A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
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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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In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
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Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
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The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.
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