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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2170499 | How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 1ec7436 | Once more the odious courtesies began, the first handed the knife across K. to the second, who handed it across K. back again to the first. K. now perceived clearly that he was supposed to seize the knife himself, as it traveled from hand to hand above him, and plunge it into his own breast. But he did not do so, he merely turned his head, which was still free to move, and gazed around him. He could not completely rise to the occasion, he c.. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 471d8e5 | In the struggle between yourself and the world, hold the world's coat. | Franz Kafka | ||
| a1ae8e3 | The onlookers go rigid when the train goes past. | Franz Kafka | ||
| a585d7b | Logic is of course unshakeable, but it cannot hold out against a man who wants to live. | Franz Kafka | ||
| f942ad6 | Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K., for without having done anything wrong he was arrested one fine morning. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 2697920 | And here was your mysterious innocence and invulnerability: you abused others without regret, and you condemned abuse, and said it was forbidden. You backed your derision with threats, for example, 'I'll rip you apart like a fish.' And that was dreadful to me, even though I knew that nothing bad would happen (yet as a young child I didn't know this), but your words served as a sign of your power, and you always seemed capable of doing som.. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 6f83ae2 | How many days have again gone silently by; today is 28 May. Have I not even the resolution to take this penholder, this piece of wood, in my hand every day? I really think I do not. I row, ride, swim, lie in the sun. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 7173de8 | I repeat: there was no attraction for me in imitating human beings; I imitated them because I needed a way out, and for no other reason. | Franz Kafka | ||
| 1b64f4a | knt frys@ lkhwf, lkhwf mn hdh lfq lb`th `l~ lrj. wknt 'Hs brwHy tnTwy `l~ dhth , 'Hsh ttqhqr, wknt mr`wb mn fkr@ 'nh lm ybq lh 'mm hdh lHSr sw~ lhrb . | Milan Kundera | ||
| 0614728 | Large countries'] patriotism is different: they are buoyed by their glory, their importance, their universal mission. The Czechs loved their country not because it was glorious but because it was unknown; not because it was big but because it was small and in constant danger. Their patriotism was an enormous compassion for their country. | patriotism | Milan Kundera | |
| c99c6c5 | los amores son como los imperios: cuando desaparece la idea sobre la cual han sido construidos, perecen ellos tambien. | Milan Kundera | ||
| b85f1d0 | The idea of eternal return is a mysterious one, and Nietzsche has often perplexed other philosophers with it: to think that everything recurs as we once experienced it, and that the recurrence itself recurs ad infinitum! What does this mad myth signify? | mystery thought-provoking | Milan Kundera | |
| 5b489a7 | No es la necesidad, sino la casualidad, la que esta llena de encantos, si el amor debe ser inolvidable, las casualidades deben volar hacia el desde el primer momento | lovers | Milan Kundera | |
| e71e63f | lknh fy ythk lm ykn Gryb, kn wHd mnhm wldhlk lm ykhTr l'Hd mnhm 'n yqwl lh "Hki"." | Milan Kundera | ||
| 978c471 | birds of fortuity flutter down on her shoulders... | Milan Kundera | ||
| 6ef6b69 | If rejection and priviledge are one and the same, if there is no difference between the sublime and the paltry, if Son of God can undergo judgement of shit, then human existence loses its dimensions and becomes unbearable light. | Milan Kundera | ||
| b1d235c | Prijateljstvo je neophodno covjeku za dobar rad pamcenja. Sjecati se svoje proslosti, nositi je uza se, to je mozda nuzan uvjet da se sacuva, kako kazu, integritet svoga 'ja'. Da to 'ja' ne zakrzlja, da sacuva svoj obujam, potrebno je zalijevati sjecanja kao cvijece u loncu, a to zalijevanje trazi stalan dodir sa svjedocima proslosti, to jest s prijateljima. Oni su nase zrcalo; nase pamcenje; nista ne trazimo od njih osim da s vremena na vr.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 8351b14 | It was as though she has found refuge inside a shell and the only sound she could hear was the sea of an inimical world. | Milan Kundera | ||
| ea62e48 | tDrb Hky@ lshkhSyn lmwshkyn `l~ 'n ySyr `shyqyn bjdhwrh fy lqdm ,bHyth nstTy` nsyn l`hd ldhy tjry fyh .. m 'lTf 'n yHky lmr hdh lnw` mn lmGmrt ! w m 'ldhW 'n ynsh , hy lty jfWft nsG Hywtn lqSyr@ lky nskhrh lhdhh l'`ml ltfh@, fm 'jml 'n nnsy ltrykh ! | Milan Kundera | ||
| a210a0b | l sh~ yuqrb byn lns bhdhh lsr`@ mthl tfq Hzyn , ky'yb . hdh ljw mn ltwTw' lmslm ldhy ynyWm 'y nw` mn lmkhwf 'w lmkbH wtfhmh lnfws lmuhdhb@ klnfws l`my@ ; ymthl 'shl nmT lltqrb !. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 92616be | We will never remember anything by sitting in one place waiting for the memories to come back to us of their own accord! Memories are scattered all over the world. We must travel if we want to find them and flush them from their hiding places! | travel | Milan Kundera | |
| 6335411 | A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you see on posters or in fashion magazines-the ones all the women try to imitate nowadays-how can they be attractive? They have no reality of their own; they're just the sum of a set of abstract rules. They aren't born of human bodies; they hatch ready-made from the computers | Milan Kundera | ||
| 6be2fb8 | A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the realm of human possibilities, everything that man can become, everything he's capable of. Novelists draw up the map of existence by discovering this or that human possibilit. But again, to exist mean: 'being-in-the-world.' Thus both the character and his world must be understood as possibilities. | novel on-writing possibilities | Milan Kundera | |
| 45c40b2 | 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... | Milan Kundera | ||
| 1f394c9 | It is much more important to dig a half-buried crow out of the ground," he said, "than to send petitions to a president." -- | Milan Kundera | ||
| 050ee1a | 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. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 2d6c166 | kn ykhsh~ fy 'Glb l'Hyn 'n yjdh jls@ `l~ 'rD ldkn ldhy tshtry mnh lsjy'r. | 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 | |
| 376d8b8 | The constitution did indeed guarantee freedom of speech, but the laws punished anything that could be considered an attack on state security | Milan Kundera | ||
| cdb619d | lm tkn lrwH qdr@ `l~ shH@ bSrh `n shy'b@ lwld@ lmstdyr@ lsmr fwq l`n@ tmman; knt lrwH tr~ fy hdhh lshy'b@ khtman wsmt bh ljsd, wknt tjd 'n tHrk `Dw Gryb `l~ mqrb@ jdan mn hdh lkhtm lmqds, 'mr fyh tjdyf. | 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 | |
| 2bb4d7b | 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.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 33af3df | 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. | Milan Kundera | ||
| c8bdd2b | In the sunet of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia. | Milan Kundera | ||
| c16f890 | 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? | Milan Kundera | ||
| 78da42b | Beauty by mistake' -- the final phase in the history of beauty. | milan kundera | ||
| e433867 | 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. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 90573ba | 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.. | es-muss-sein fate love six-laughable-fortuities | Milan Kundera | |
| 1aefad1 | 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. | Milan Kundera | ||
| c636db2 | Extremes means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 3316ada | You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange | Milan Kundera | ||
| 7da6aec | They talk on about death, about boredom, they drink wine, they laugh, they have a good time, they are happy. | Milan Kundera | ||
| dc61e79 | The children laughing without knowing why - isn't that beautiful? | meaning | Milan Kundera | |
| da8204f | 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. | Milan Kundera | ||
| aee0a0d | 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.. | Milan Kundera |