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La memoria no guarda películas, guarda fotografías.

Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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Brünn

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The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
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Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.
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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
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When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.
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The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.
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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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Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom even in a game is a trap for the players.
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When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?
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On the surface, an intelligible lie underneath, the unintelligible truth.
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