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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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Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
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Sad company is bad company.
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Those boobs of yours are ubiquitous - like God!
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The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
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Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel it is its morality.
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what's the matter? he asked nothing what do you want me to do for you? i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty years older what she meant was: i want you to be weak. as weak as i am.
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Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.
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And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
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Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.
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A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
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We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realize what we've been through and understand what it means.
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Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor
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I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
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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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In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
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Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.
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The young man called the waiter and paid. Then he got up and said to the girl: 'We're going.' Where to?' The girl feigned surprise. Don't ask, just come on,' said the young man. Is that any way to talk to me?' It's the way I talk to whores.
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But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)
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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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