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dr ykh jm`h mrfh, frd Htyj bh khrkhrdn b dsthy khwd ndrnd w bh f`lyt fkhry myprdznd. dnshghh byshzpysh bh wjwd myayd w t`dd dnshjwyn byshzpysh zyd myshwd. anh bry frGltHSyl shdn byd mwDw` rslh khwd r ntkhb khnnd. t`dd mwDw`t byshmr st, zyr mytwn drbrh hmhchyz w hychchyz tfsyr w brrsy khrd. bdyn trtyb dsthhy khGdh syh shdh dr arshywh bh rwy hm tlnbr myshwd, jyy khh z gwrstn hm Hznngyztr st, zyr Hty dr `yd wlyy dyn msyH hm khsy bh anj nmyrwd...
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It is much more important to dig a half-buried crow out of the ground," he said, "than to send petitions to a president." --
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Milan Kundera |
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050ee1a
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She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: we are at the last station. The happiness meant: we are together.
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376d8b8
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The constitution did indeed guarantee freedom of speech, but the laws punished anything that could be considered an attack on state security
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flnsn lmTrwd mn syj lTfwl@ lwq~ yrGb f~ qtHm l`lm, lkn khwfh ydf`h l~ Sn` `lm STn`~ t`wyD~ bwsT@ 'sh`rh, fyHyT nfsh btlk l'sh`r km tHyT lkwkb blshms, wyHtl mrkz `lm SGyr l shy' fyh Gryban, yHs dkhlh bl'lf@ `l~ Grr lTfl f~ bTn 'mh, l'n kl shy' hnlk mqdwd mn md@ rwHh. whw hnk ystTy` 'n yf`l kl m yt`dhWr `lyh f`lh f~ lkhrj. hnk ystTy` 'n ysyr byn Hshwd l`ml mn 'jl lqym blthwr@, wyjld `shyqth lSGyrt, l'n hdhh lHshwd, whdhh l`shyqt lm tuqdd mn l..
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On the surface, there was always an impeccably realistic world, but underneath, behind the backdrop's cracked canvas, lurked something different, something mysterious or abstract.
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c8bdd2b
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In the sunet of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia.
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Milan Kundera |
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c16f890
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Was it simply the hysteria of a man, who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?
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78da42b
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Beauty by mistake' -- the final phase in the history of beauty.
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He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split them in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
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They had been talking about his friend Z. when she announced, "If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him." Even then, her words had left Tomas in a strange state of melancholy, and now he realized it was only a matter of chance that Tereza loved him and not his friend Z. Apart from her consummated love for Tomas, there were, in the realm of possibility, an infinite number of unconsummated loves for other men. We all r..
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fate
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six-laughable-fortuities
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We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives, nor perfect it in lives to come.
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c636db2
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Extremes means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.
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Milan Kundera |
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3316ada
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You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange
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7da6aec
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They talk on about death, about boredom, they drink wine, they laugh, they have a good time, they are happy.
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Milan Kundera |
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dc61e79
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The children laughing without knowing why - isn't that beautiful?
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meaning
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da8204f
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It was time laid bare, time in and of itself, time at its most basic and primal, and it forced me to call it by its true name (for now I was living pure time--pure, vacant time) so as not to forget it for a moment, keep it constantly before me, and feel its weight.
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Do you realise what is the eternal precondition of tragedy? The existence of ideals which are considered more valuable than human life. [...] Thy drive you to your death because presumably there is something greater than your life. War can only exist in a world of tragedy. [...] The age of tragedy can be ended any by the revolt of frivolity. [...] Frivolity is a radical diet for weight-reduction. things will lose ninety percent of their mea..
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Homo sentimentalis [...] a man who has raised feelings to a category of value. As soon as feelings are seen as value, everyone wants to feel; and because we all like to pride ourselves on our values, we have a tendency to show off our feelings.
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the less her life resembled that sweetest of dreams, the more sensitive she was to its magic.
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the woman we love ought to swim as slowly as we do, she ought to have no past of her own to look back on happily. But when the illusion of absolute identity vanishes (the girl looks back happily on her past or swims faster), love becomes a permanent source of the great torment we call litost.
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inspirational-quotes
love
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dr mqbl dnyy pr z wqHty khh w r drbr mygrft, trz fqT ykh slH dsht w anhm khtbhyy bwd khh z khtbkhnh bh mnt mygrft.
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'y shkhS hdfh hw "lshy' l'`l~" `lyh 'n ytwq` ywman m lm`n@ mn ldwr. m hw ldwr? lkhwf mn lsqwT? l, ldwr shy' mkhtlf `n lkhwf mn lsqwT. nh Swt lfrG mn tHtn wldhy yjtdhbn wyGryn, nh lrGb@ fy lsqwT, wlty fy mqblh, wbfz`, ndf` `n 'nfsn." --
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nhm mst`dwn lldhhb l~ ~ mkn , lf`l ~ shyy' ,fqT lyqtlw lwqt ldh~ l y`rfwn m yf`lwn bh. l y`rfwn shyy', ldhlk ystslmwn llnqydz
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And then I realized how powerless I was to revoke my own joke when throughout my life as a whole I was involved in a joke much more vast (all-embracing for me) and utterly irrevocable.
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dwst dshtn, chshmpwshy z qdrt st.
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2bbc711
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I've always had the sense that my life is run by other people.
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The stronger their nostalgia, the emptier of recollections it becomes.
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645603a
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The feeling, the irrepressible yearning to return, suddenly reveals to her the existence of the past, the power of the past, of her past; in the house of her life there are windows now, windows opening to the rear, onto what she has experienced; from now on her existence will be inconceivable without these windows.
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In Ferdydurke, Gombrowicz got at the fundamental shift that occurred during the twentieth century: until then mankind was divided in two--those who defended the status quo and those who sought to change it. Then the acceleration of History took effect: whereas in the past man had lived continuously in the same setting, in a society that changed only very slowly, now the moment arrived when he suddenly began to feel History moving beneath hi..
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His connection to his life was that of a sculptor to his statue or a novelist to his novel. It is an inviolable right of a novelist to rework his novel. If the opening does not please him, he can rewrite or delete it. But Zdena's existence denied Mirek that author's prerogative. Zdena insisted on remaining on the opening pages of the novel and did not let herself be crossed out.
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Nunca seremos capaces de establecer con seguridad en que medida nuestras relaciones con los demas son producto de nuestros sentimientos, de nuestro amor, de nuestro desamor, bondad o maldad, y hasta que punto son el resultado de la relacion de fuerzas existente entre ellos y nosotros. La verdadera bondad del hombre solo puede manifestarse con absoluta limpieza y libertad en relacion con quien no representa fuerza alguna. La verdadera prueba..
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conveniencia
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mn lS`b l`ysh m` 'shkhS mst`dyn lrslk l~ lmnf~ w lmwt , mn lS`b 'n tSn` mnhm 'Sdq Hmymyn , km mn lS`b 'n tHbhm !.
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n 'lmn lshkhS~ lys thql mn l'lm ldh~ n`nyh m` lakhr wmn 'jl lakhr wf~ mkn lakhr; 'lm yD`fh lkhyl wtrj`h wy't l'Sd.
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L'homme ne peut jamais savoir ce qu'il faut vouloir car il n'a qu'une vie et il ne peut ni la comparer a des vies anterieures ni la rectifier dans des vies ulterieures. (...) Il n'existe aucun moyen de verifier quelle decision est la bonne car il n'existe aucune comparaison. Tout est vecu tout de suite pour la premiere fois et sans preparation. Comme si un acteur entrait en scene sans avoir jamais repete. Mais que peut valoir la vie, si la ..
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It was drizzling. As people rushed along, they began opening umbrellas over their heads, and all at once the streets were crowded too. Arched umbrella roofs collided with one another. The men were courteous, and when passing Tereza they held their umbrellas high over their heads and gave her room to go by. But the women would not yield; each looked straight ahead, waiting for the other women to acknowledge her inferiority and step aside. Th..
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Missao, Tereza, e uma palavra idiota. Eu nao tenho missao. Ninguem tem missao. E e um alivio enorme perceber que somos livres, que nao temos missao.
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Why is it that a dog's menstruation made her lighthearted and gay, while her own menstruation made her squeamish? The answer seems simple to me: dogs were never expelled from Paradise. Karenin knew nothing about the duality of body and soul and had no concept of disgust. That is why Tereza felt so free and easy with him. (And that is why it is so dangerous to turn an animal into a machina animata, a cow into an automaton for the production ..
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he tried to design his life in such a way that no woman could move in with a suitcase
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We can never know what we want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. [...] And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, 'sketch' is not quite the word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing,..
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lltjdydt lshkly@ lty yqwm bh l'stdh@ lkbr, dy'man, 'mr m khfy, wtlk hy `lm@ ltjwyd lkbr~. ltjdyd l ybdw dh nzw` llft lntbh l `nd l'stdh@ lSGr.
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fkh lkrhy@ hw 'nh yj`ln nnjdl `l~ nHwin lSyq jdan m` khSmn. hdh hw fuHshu lHrb: Hmymy@ ldm lmsfwk fy kl ljnbyn, wlqurb lshhwny ljndyWayn ykhtrq klunW mnhm lakhr brSSh, w`ynh fy `ynh.
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lwHd@: Gybun `dhbun llnZrt. fy 'Hd l'ym mrDt zmylth w`mlt wHdh fy lmktb Tyyl@ 'sbw`yn, lHZt mndhsh@ `nd lms b'nh l tkd tsh`r blt`b. mm j`lh tdrk b'n lnZrt Himlun mrhiq, qbltun tmtS ldm, w'n misbar lnZrt hw ldhy Hafara ltj`yd `l~ wjhh
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It is a completely selfless love: Tereza did not want anything of Karenin; she did not ever ask him to love her back. Nor had she ever asked herself the questions that plague human couples: Does he love me? Does he love anyone more than me? Does he love me more than I love him? Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to l..
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