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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 9ba50a0 | All the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. Drink it to the dregs. No cheating allowed. No making believe it's not there. Modern man cheats. He tries to get around all the milestones on the road from birth to death. | Milan Kundera | ||
| a9934d9 | Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 3e9d771 | Hacer el amor con una mujer y dormir con una mujer son dos pasiones no solo distintas sino casi contradictorias. El amor no se manifiesta en el deseo de acostarse con alguien (este deseo se produce en relacion con una cantidad innumerable de mujeres), sino en el deseo de dormir junto a alguien (este deseo se produce en relacion con una unica mujer). | sexo | Milan Kundera | |
| 5a426c4 | Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest. | reality unimaginable | Milan Kundera | |
| e39b1c6 | All predictions are wrong, that's one of the few certainties granted to mankind. | Milan Kundera | ||
| aa91089 | gr blndprwzy ndshth bshy w tshnh mwfq shdn w bh rsmyt shnkhth shdn nbshy dr astnh sqwT qrr mygyry | Milan Kundera | ||
| 0a0ac7f | dhlk 'n shGf lm`rf@ `nd lrwy'y l ysthdf lsys@ wl ltrykh. m ljdyd ldhy bmkn rwy'y 'n yktshfh Hwl l'Hdth lmwSwf@ wlmnqsh@ fy alf lktb lrSyn@ lmtnw`@? | Milan Kundera | ||
| 5a0d312 | There was nothing to be done. From then on, there were flowers waiting for me every time we met, and in the end I gave in, because I was disarmed by the spontaneity of giving and understood tha Lucie cared for it; perhaps her tongue-tied state, her lack of verbal eloquence, made her think of flowers as a form of speech; not in the sense of heavy-handed conventional flower symbolism, but in a sense still more archaic, more nebulous, more ins.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 8dc5372 | klm knt Hytn thql Hmlan knt Hytn qrb l~ l'rD wknt wq`y@ 'kthr wHqyqy@ 'kthr | Milan Kundera | ||
| 16b055c | In Wenceslaus Square, in Prague, a guy is throwing up. Another guy comes up to him, pulls a long face, shakes his head, and says: "I know just what you mean." | Milan Kundera | ||
| 8cb8de2 | She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison. | Milan Kundera | ||
| adb9050 | His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession...He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by a deep inner desire. Insofar as it is possible to divide people into categories, the surest criterion is the deep-seated desires that orient them to one or another lifelong activity. Every Frenchman is different. But all the actors the world over are similar. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 5a28424 | loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away | Milan Kundera | ||
| 0e24604 | Back at home, after some prodding from Tereza, he admitted that he had been jealous watching her dance with a colleague of his. "You mean you were really jealous?" she asked him ten times or more, incredulously, as though someone had just informed her she had been awarded a Nobel Peace prize. Then she put her arm around his waist and began dancing across the room. The step she used was not the one she had shown off in the bar. It was more l.. | jealousy love | Milan Kundera | |
| dff21d5 | Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 1d2bb2c | Once upon a time I too thought that the future was the only competent judge of our works and actions. Later on I understood that chasing after the future is the worst conformism of all, a craven flattery of the mighty. For the future is always mightier than the present. It will pass judgement on us, of course. And without any competence. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 022e0c9 | hl SHyH 'nh yjb `lyn 'n nrf` Swtn Hyn yuskt 'Hdhm rjlan? n`m. | علم-نفس فلسفة فلسفة-حياة friedrich-nietzche friedrich-nietzsche حب جنس اجتماع كائن-لا-تحتمل-خفته love milan-kundera ميلان-كونديرا neitzsche novel نيتشه philosophy philosophy-of-life political psychological psychology religion religion-and-philoshophy sex sociology | ميلان كونديرا | |
| 91d08c0 | ndm 'sm` sm twlstwy, 'tSwr `l~ lfwr rwytyh l`Zymtyn lty l yshbhhm shy. w`ndm 'nTq 'sm srtr wkmw wmlrw, fn m tthyrh fy shkhSythm hw syrhm wjdlthm wm`rkhm wmwqfhm. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 7060cb4 | mn lbdyhy 'nh l t`y hdhh lHqyq@, whdh shy mfhwm: flhdf ldhy nlHqh mHjwb `n dy'man . . Hyn trGb ft@ shb@ fy lzwj fhy trGb fy shy tjhlh tmman. wlshb ldhy yrkD wr lmjd l ymlk 'dn~ fkr@ `n lmjd. ldhlk, fn lshy ldhy y`Ty m`n~ ltSrftn shy njhlh tmman. sbyn 'yDan tjhl m hw lhdf mn rGbth fy lkhyn@. 'ykwn lhdf mnh lwSwl l~ lkhf@ Gyr lmHtml@ llky'n? mndh rHylh `n jnyf why tqtrb 'kthr f'kthr mn hdh lhdf. | علم-نفس فلسفة فلسفة-حياة friedrich-nietzche friedrich-nietzsche حب جنس اجتماع كائن-لا-تحتمل-خفته love milan-kundera ميلان-كونديرا neitzsche novel نيتشه philosophy philosophy-of-life political psychological psychology religion religion-and-philoshophy sex sociology | ميلان كونديرا | |
| 1125802 | Lo que solo ocurre una vez es como si no ocurriera nunca. Si el hombre solo puede vivir una vida es como si no viviera en absoluto | milan-kundera | Milan Kundera | |
| e737f9a | Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift. | 20th-century-literature bliss certainty cynicism czech-literature death death-and-dying endings gallows-humor gifts sleep | Milan Kundera | |
| b597f18 | Our guilt has its uses. It justifies much in the lives of others. | justification self-righteousness | Max Frisch | |
| cd2caeb | Being alone is the only possible condition for me, since I don't want to make a woman unhappy, and women have a tendency to become unhappy. Being alone isn't always fun, you can't always be in form. Moreover, I have learned from experience that once you are not in form women don't remain in form either; as soon as they are bored they start complaining you've no feeling. | Max Frisch | ||
| 93c3a44 | I've often wondered what people mean when they talk about an experience. I'm a technologist and accustomed to seeing things as they are. I see everything they are talking about very clearly; after all, I'm not blind. I see the moon over the Tamaulipas desert--it is more distinct than at other times, perhaps, but still a calculable mass circling around our planet, an example of gravitation, interesting, but in what way an experience? I see t.. | Max Frisch | ||
| 3e8625c | Ich mochte schlafen, aber du musst tanzen." [ ]" | sleep | Theodor Storm | |
| 403edc5 | I've decided Mom's boyfriends are a lot like U.S. Presidents. You keep thinking they can't get any worse. And then she comes up with a Lance Wescott. | C.D. Payne | ||
| eb060cc | I take it, then, Vijay, you are still a virgin?' Yes, and I find it extremely galling. When Gandhi was my age he had already been married three years.' No wonder Gandhi turned out to be a great man. When you get your love life nailed down that early, think of all the time it frees up to devote to Great Ideas. | C.D. Payne | ||
| f789f41 | I learned a lot that night. For example, that part of being the magician's assistant means coming face-to-face with illusion. That invisibility is really just knotting your body in a certain way and letting the black curtain fall over you. That people don't vanish into thin air; that when you can't find someone, it's because you've been misdirected to look elsewhere. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| b99bb1b | Will had never wanted to fall in love. When it had happened to friends, it had always struck him as a peculiarly unpleasant-seeming experience, what with all the loss of sleep and weight, and the unhappiness when it was reciprocated, and the suspect, dippy happiness when it was working out. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 45e3744 | H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the final minutes of a desperately close promotion campaign? | women | Nick Hornby | |
| 232c2d7 | Do I want to be like him? Not really, I don't think. But I find myself worrying away at that stuff about pop music again, whether I like it because I'm unhappy, or whether I'm unhappy because I like. | Nick Hornby | ||
| a05ccc4 | There was an awful lot to be said for familiarity, if you thought about it. It was an extremely underrated virtue, ignorable until the very moment that you were in danger of losing whatever or whoever it was that was familiar. | Nick Hornby | ||
| c3483f5 | because dangling your legs over the precipice is nothing unless you're prepared to go that extra two inches, and none of us had been. We could tell each other and ourselves something different -- oh, I would have done it if she hadn't been there or he hadn't been there or if someone hadn't sat on my head -- but that fact of the matter was that we were all still around, and we'd all had ample opportunity not to be. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 8da2731 | Read anything, as long as you can't wait to pick it up again. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 97a47b6 | I'm coming to London next week, by the way, in unhappy circumstances. Are we getting on fine as we are? Or would you like a drink? | Nick Hornby | ||
| 5136af5 | We were little animals, which is not to imply that by the end of the week we were tearing our tank tops off; just that, metaphorically speaking, we had begun to sniff each other's bottoms, and we did not find the odor entirely repellent. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 5a4ea30 | How come every squitty little shitty snotty bastard knows my name? | personalities relationships | Nick Hornby | |
| 3c5f10b | If you've found the right person, you've found the right person, it doesn't matter how old you are. | Nick Hornby | ||
| f070dd4 | When I went back into the kitchen, I wanted to sit on my mum's lap. I know that sounds stupid and babyish , but I couldn't help it. On my sixteenth birthday, I didn't want to be sixteen, or fifteen or anyteen. I wanted to be three or four, and too young to make any kind of mess | Nick Hornby | ||
| 2074d9e | One of the reasons I wanted to write this column, I think, is because I assumed that the cultural highlight of my month would arrive in book form, and that's true, for probably eleven months of the year. Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.... Even if you love movies and music as much as you do books, it's still, in any given four week period, way, way more likely you'll find a great book that you haven't read than a great.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| eac2e2a | It's easier to have parents if you've got a girlfriend. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 315e2af | The problem was, you couldn't have one without the other. There couldn't be a bad guy unless there was a good guy to create the standard. And there couldn't be a good guy until a bad guy showed just how far off the path he might stray. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| f6d3330 | But there was a part of her that wondered what would happen if she let them all in on the secretthat some mornings, it was hard to get out of bed and put on someone else's smile; that she was standing on air, a fake who laughed at all the right jokes and whispered all the right gossip and attracted the right guy, a fake who had nearly forgotten what it felt like to be real...and who, when you got right down to it, didn't want to remember, b.. | Jodi Picoult | ||
| 85b1eef | Whether by chance conjunction or not, the "wind-up bird" was a powerful presence in Cinnamon's story. The cry of this bird was audible only to certain special people, who were guided by it toward inescapable ruin. The will of human beings meant nothing, then, as the veterinarian always seemed to feel. People were no more than dolls set on tabletops, the springs in their backs wound up tight, dolls set to move in ways they could not choose, .. | Haruki Murakami |