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Sad company is bad company.
Milan Kundera
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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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...[P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all... (p.24)
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In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.
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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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Is not parody the eternal lot of man?
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But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science , instantly fades away.
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Yes, the essence of every love is a child, and it makes no difference at all whether it has ever actually been conceived or born. In the algebra of love a child is the symbol of the magical sum of two beings.
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Yes, if you're looking for infinity, just close your eyes!
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What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.
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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
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But if God is gone and man is no longer master, then who is master?
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Through the air floated only important words, and Flajsman said to himself that love has but one true measure, and that is death. At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.
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The important thing is to abide by the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.
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She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.
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Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
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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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Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor
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Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent.
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There is no perfection only life
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a man possessed with peace is always smiling
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The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.
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