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88d9a46
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who is the pioneer of modern journalism? Not Hemingway who wrote of his experiences in the trenches, not Orwell who spent a year of his life with the Parisian poor, not Egon Erwin Kisch the expert on Prague prostitutes, but Oriana Fallaci who in the years 1969 to 1972 published a series of interviews with the most famous politicians of the time. Those interviews were more than mere conversations; they were duels. Before the powerful politic..
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oriana-fallaci
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Milan Kundera |
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34143e2
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fkrt bshqyq@ mlk@ njltr wqlt lnfsh n al@ tSwyr HlWat fy lwqt lHDr mkn `yn llh. `yn wHdin tHl mHlh `yn ljmy`. tHwlt lHy@ l~ Hfl@ mjwn wHd@ wws`@ yshrk fyh ljmy`. ystTy` ljmy` rw'y@ 'myr@ njltr why tHtfl b`yd myldh `ry@ `l~ shTy' mdr~. yZhr 'n jhz ltSwyr l yhtm l blns lmshhwryn, Gyr 'nh ykfy 'n ttHTm Ty'r@ bqrbk, 'n yrtf` llhyb mn qymSk, Ht~ tGdw 'nt 'yDan shhyran ftuDam l~ Hfl@ lmjwn l`m@ lty l `lq@ lh blbhj@ bl lty t`ln rsmyan 'nh lm y`d bw..
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Milan Kundera |
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4ad551d
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Aski olcmek, sinamak, denemek ve kurtarmak icin aska yonelttigimiz butun bu sorular belki de her seyin yanisira aski kisaltmaya da yariyor. Belki de sevemememizin nedeni cok sevmek istememiz, yani karsimizdaki kisiden hicbir istekte bulunmaksizin, ondan onunla birlikte olmaktan baska bir sey istemeksizin kendimizi ona verecek yerde ondan bir sey (ask) talep etmemizdir.
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Milan Kundera |
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948fcfb
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Znaete shto se sluchuva koga dvajtsa razgovaraat. Edniot zboruva, a drugiot mu upagja vo zborot: ,,bash isto kako mene, jas..." i pochnuva da si zboruva za sebe se duri prviot ne uspee i samiot da se ufrli: ,,bash isto kako mene, jas..." Taa rechenitsa ,,bash isto kako mene, jas..." se chini e nekakvo okhrabruvachko ekho, nachin da se prodolzhi mislata na drugiot, no toa e samo mamka: vprochem toa e brutalen revolt protiv eden brutalen napa..
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Milan Kundera |
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d208ebe
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I thought of the fate of Descartes' famous formulation: man as 'master and proprietor of nature.' Having brought off miracles in science and technology, this 'master and proprietor' is suddenly realizing that he owns nothing and is master neither of nature (it is vanishing, little by little, from the planet), nor of History (it has escaped him), nor of himself (he is led by the irrational forces of his soul). But if God is gone and man is n..
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history
nature
humanity
destiny
god
self-determinism
modern
meaning-of-life
end-of-history
existentialism
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Milan Kundera |
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45ed50f
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Vremeto na choveka ne obikalia v kr'g, a prepuska po prava liniia napred. I tuk se krie prichinata chovek da ne mozhe da postigne shchastieto, zashchoto shchastieto e kopnezh po povtorenieto.
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Milan Kundera |
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8f251bf
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mmrs@ lHb m` mr'@, wlnwm m` mr'@, sh`wrn mkhtlfn tmman, bl lys mjrd khtlf wnm tDd. lHb l ySn` bdhth sh`wran blrGb@ fy ljm` (lrGb@ lty tmtd l`dd l HSr lh mn lns), wlkn sh`wran blrGb@ fy lnwm lmshtrk (lrGb@ lty tqtSr `l~ mr'@ wHd@).
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Milan Kundera |
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8f94443
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I bambini sono senza passato ed e questo tutto il mistero dell'innocenza magica del loro sorriso...
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innocence
smile
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Milan Kundera |
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820b52d
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As retretes das casas de banho modernas erguem-se do chao como uma flor branca de nenufar. Os arquitectos fazem os impossiveis para que o corpo esqueca a sua miseria e para que o homem nao saiba o que acontece as dejeccoes das suas visceras quando a agua do autoclismo, a gorgolejar, as expulsa da vista. Embora os seus tentaculos se prolonguem ate nossas casas, os canos de esgoto estao cuidadosamente disfarcados e por isso nao sabemos absolu..
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Milan Kundera |
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c20c3c6
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l'lf klm@ hw 'wl byn kbyr Zhr fy tshykwslwfky rby` 1968 wkn yTlb bnshr jdhry lldymqrTy@ fy lnZm lshyw`y , wq` hdh lbyn Hshd mn lmthqfyn , thm wq` `lyh 'ns `dywn , wbd't ttdfq ltwqy` Ht~ lm y`d blmkn HSw'h, w`ndm 'jtH ljysh lrwsy tshywkwslwfky wbd't `mlyt ltThyr lsysy@ kn hnk sw'l mwjh l~ lmwTn yqwl " hl wq`t nt yDan `l~ byn l'lfy klm@ ? fSrf hw'l ldhyn wq`w mn wZy'fhm fy lHl"
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Milan Kundera |
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679a7d6
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Once, when he had just lulled her to sleep but she had gone no farther than dream's antechamber and was therefore still responsive to him, he said to her, "Good-bye, I'm going now." "Where?" she asked in her sleep. "Away," he answered sternly. "Then I'm going with you," she said, sitting up in bed. "No, you can't. I'm going away for good," he said, going out into the hall. She stood up and followed him out, squinting. She was naked beneath ..
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Milan Kundera |
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f185afa
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lky ntHsh~ l`dhb nlj' fy 'kthr l'Hyn l~ lmstqbl. fntSwWr 'n thm@ fSlan m `l~ Hlb@ lzmn ytwqf b`dh l`dhb lHly `n 'n ykwn mwjwdan
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Milan Kundera |
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059640a
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n tfrWd l'n ykmn bldht fy hdh ljz mn "lmt`dhr tSwrh" ldhy ymlkh kl nsn"
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Milan Kundera |
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7ea3c57
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Marketa really desired, with both her body and her senses, the women she considered Karel's mistresses. And she also desired them with her head: fulfilling the prophecy of her old math teacher, she wanted - at least to the limits of the disastrous contract - to show herself enterprising and playful, and to astonish Karel. But as soon as she found herself naked with them on the wide daybed, the sensual wanderings immediately vanished from he..
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Milan Kundera |
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a290fbe
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But deep down she said to herself, Franz may be strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goodness.
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Milan Kundera |
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3702aa1
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Isn't that exactly the definition of biography? An artificial logic imposed on an 'incoherent succession of images'?
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Milan Kundera |
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325e8b2
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I naistina, ima neshcho nelepo v tova kolektivno pokorstvo pred predpisanite skhemi na sonatata ili na simfoniiata. Da si predstavim kak velikite simfonisti, vkliuchitelno Khaidn i Motsart, Shuman i Brams, sled kato sa si poplakali v adazhioto, v poslednata chast se degizirat kato malki uchenitsi i prez mezhduchasieto se vturvat v dvora, za da tantsuvat, da podskachat i da kreshchiat kolkoto im glas d'rzhi, che vsichko e dobre, kogato sv'rs..
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Milan Kundera |
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9a11623
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Whoever wishes to remember must not stay in one place, waiting for the memories to come of their own accord! Memories are scattered all over the immense world, and it takes voyaging to find them and make them leave their refuge.
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Milan Kundera |
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db92fe4
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l n`rf 'bdan lmdh wb'y shy' nDyq lakhryn, l'y shy' nustlTaf mn qblhm, wl'y shy' nbdw lhm mDHkyn.Swrtn lkhS@ hy llGz l'kbr blnsb@ ln.
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Milan Kundera |
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c943ebc
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Fare l'amore con una donna e dormire con una donna sono due passioni non solo diverse, ma quasi opposte. L'amore non si manifesta con il desiderio di fare l'amore [...] ma col desiderio di dormire insieme.
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love
sesso
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Milan Kundera |
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c098ee1
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Tochno v tazi bezprichinnost e k'scheto svoboda, koeto e otpusnato na vseki ot nas i k'm koeto triabva neprestanno i neotst'pno da posiagame, za da ostane v tozi sviat na zhelezni zakoni malko choveshki bezporiad'k.
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Milan Kundera |
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4123ce4
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dr `Sr jdyd hrkhs tnh bh zndgy w bqy khwd fkhr mykhnd w ngyzh frdy shlwdh hmh khrh w f`lyth shdh st.
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Milan Kundera |
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df265a3
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Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the viewpoint of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil. Not that the novelist utterly denies that moral judgment is l..
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Milan Kundera |
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389e3cd
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I believe that in matters of the heart there is no such thing as compromise. Love means that you give each other everything.
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romance
trust
love
romantic-love
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Milan Kundera |
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72cbe82
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Those who are fascinated by the idea of progress do not suspect that everything moving forward is at the same time bringing the end nearer and that joyous watchwords like "forward" and "farther" are the lascivious voice of death urging us to hasten to it. (If fascination with the word "forward" has become universal, isn't it mainly because death is already speaking to us from nearby?)"
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progress
farther
near-end
forward
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Milan Kundera |
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467b11d
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she thought that after what she had been through during the invasion she would stop being petty and grow up, grow wise and strong, but she had overestimated herself
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Milan Kundera |
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ee3a106
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Tomas lived under the hypnotic spell cast by the excruciating beauty of Tereza's dreams.
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Milan Kundera |
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52161a0
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But how to define the eroticism of a man (or an era) that sees female seductive power as centered in the middle of the body, in the navel?
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Milan Kundera |
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8641e47
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You know, it's really very peculiar. To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead.
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mortality
immortality
living
life
philosophy
dying
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Milan Kundera |
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b1bdedc
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Even though the sewer pipelines reach far into our houses with their tentacles, they are carefully hidden from view and we are happily ignorant of the invisible Venice of shit underlying our bathrooms, bedrooms, dance halls, and parliaments.
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Milan Kundera |
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0a7d434
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lwf hw fDyl@ lfDy'l , flwf yj`l Hytn mtmsk@ , wlwlh lknt tb`thrt l~ alf lnTb`t l`br@.
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Milan Kundera |
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b4f8175
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You seem to be turning into the theme of all my paintings", she said. "The meeting of two worlds. A double exposure. Showing through the outline of Tomas the libertine, incredibly, the face of a romantic lover. Or, the other way, through a Tristan, always thinking of his Tereza, I see the beautiful, betrayed world of the libertine."
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Milan Kundera |
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ef3d807
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political movements rest not so much on rational attitudes as on fantasies, images, words, and archetypes that come together to make up this or that political kitsch.
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Milan Kundera |
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60b88a6
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wqty frd qwy anqdr D`yf myshwd khh bh frd D`yf byHrmty mykhnd, frd D`yf byd bhrsty khwd r qwy bdnd.
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Milan Kundera |
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725969c
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Every novel says to the reader: "Things are not as simple as you think." That is the novel's eternal truth, but it grows steadily harder to hear amid the din of easy, quick answers that come faster than the question and block it off. In the spirit of our time, it's either Anna or Karenin who is right, and the ancient wisdom of Cervantes, telling us about the difficulty of knowing and the elusiveness of truth, seems cumbersome and useless."
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tolstoy
modernism
epistemology
existentialism
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Milan Kundera |
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4cc17b5
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the thought went through his mind that beauty is a spark which flares up when two ages meet across the distance of time, that beauty is a clean sweep of chronology, a rebellion against time.
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time
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Milan Kundera |
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efe61e5
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Before long, unfortunately, she began to be jealous herself, and Tomas saw her jealousy not as a Nobel Prize, but as a burden, a burden he would be saddled with until not long before his death.
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Milan Kundera |
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69f8b4f
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It's a vicious circle, people are going deaf because music is played louder and louder. But because they're going deaf it has to be played louder still.
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Milan Kundera |
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80d1772
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The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful.
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Milan Kundera |
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284ddda
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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. Sabina was unaware of the goal that lay behind her longing to betray. The unbearable lightness of being --was that the goal?
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future
unbearable-lightness
veiled
heaviness
potential
unknown
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Milan Kundera |
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54f4ee3
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What remains of Beethoven? A frown, an improbable mane, and a somber voice intoning "Es muss seine!" ....And so n and so forth. Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into Kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion."
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Milan Kundera |
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6cd074b
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Misery and pride. 'On horseback, death and a peacock'.
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Milan Kundera |
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d04d224
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Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.
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Milan Kundera |
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f19dda9
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But, he said to himself, whether they knew or didn't know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn't know. Is a fool on the throne relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a fool?
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