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| a4df9b6 | Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing. | maturity | Milan Kundera | |
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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 | |
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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 | |
| dfb0aa6 | He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street. | life | Milan Kundera | |
| e8d3e20 | y`tbr tftysh lmwTnyn wmrqbthm mn lnshTt ljtm`y@ l'ssy@ wldy'm@ fy lbldn lshyw`y@. faliky ynl rsm HqWh fy qm@ m`rD 'w mwTnun `l~ t'shyr@ lqD `Tlth `l~ lshTy', 'w lky ttm lmwfq@ `l~ nDmm l`b kr@ l~ lfryq lwTny, yjb 'n tjtm` 'Slan kl 'nw` ltqryr wlshhdt lty tkhShm, (shhd@ lnTwr wzml l`ml wlshrT@ wkhly@ mwZWfwn m`dWwn lhdhh lmhm@. 'm m yql fy hdhh ltSryH fl `lq@ lh lbt@ bmwhb@ lmwTn fy lrsm 'w fy l`b lkr@, wl `lq@ lh bm dh knt tsmH lh Hlth lSHy.. | 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 | |
| e640293 | Missions are stupid, Tereza. I have no mission. No one has. And it's a terrific relief to realize you're free, free of all missions. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 101c80e | What does it mean to demonstrate in the streets, what is the significance of that collective activity so symptomatic of the twentieth century? In stupefaction Ulrich watches the demonstrators from the window; as they reach the foot of the palace, their faces turn up, turn furious, the men brandish their walking sticks, but "a few steps farther, at a bend where the demonstration seemed to scatter into the wings, most of them were already dro.. | activism artifice demonstration modernism politics protest rage spectacle | Milan Kundera | |
| b31c32f | She wants to have her notebooks so that the flimsy framework of events, as she has constructed them in her school notebook, will be provided with walls and become a house she can live in. Because if the tottering structure of her memories collapses like a clumsily pitched tent, all that Tamina will be left with is the present, that invisible point, that nothingness moving slowly toward death. | czech existentialism meaning-of-life memory novel philosophy | Milan Kundera | |
| 1342eec | Of course, even before Flaubert, people knew stupidity existed, but they understood it somewhat differently: it was considered a simple absence of knowledge, a defect correctable by education. In Flaubert's novels, stupidity is an inseparable dimension of human existence. It accompanies poor Emma throughout her days, to her bed of love and to her deathbed, over which two deadly agelastes, Homais and Bournisien, go on endlessly trading their.. | education essay flaubert knowledge modernity progress spectrum stupidity | Milan Kundera | |
| f04f20b | Love begins with a metaphor, which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetice memory. pg 209 | Milan Kundera | ||
| e774cea | The reign of imagology begins where history ends | Milan Kundera | ||
| 286bfb2 | If life were a movie, we'd have had what they call a "meet cute"." | life love meet-cute | James Patterson | |
| 65fc8d7 | Come," she said. "We're married, Walter, married. Don't touch me." | Max Frisch | ||
| 61d0816 | Es gibt allerlei Arten, einen Menschen zu morden oder wenigstens seine Seele, und das merkt keine Polizei der Welt. Dann genugt ein Wort, eine Offenheit im rechten Augenblick. Dann genugt ein Lacheln. Ich mochte den Menschen sehen, der nicht durch Lacheln umzubringen ist oder durch Schweigen. | Max Frisch | ||
| 9985bdc | She thought it stupid of a woman to want to be understood by a man; the man (said Hanna) wants the woman to be a mystery, so that he can be inspired and excited by his own incomprehension. | Max Frisch | ||
| 5132dfe | I called her a sentimentalist and artsy-craftsy. She called me Homo Faber. | Max Frisch | ||
| 51bce45 | The main thing is to stand up to the light, to joy (like our child) in the knowledge that I shall be extinguished in the light over gorse, asphalt, and sea, to stand up to time, or rather to eternity in the instant. To be eternal means to have existed. | eternity | Max Frisch | |
| 2283e2b | Cause and effect are never divided between two people. | cause effect human-relationships | Max Frisch | |
| 4bf1af3 | We have all lived through that shriveling moment when a parent walks into a room and repeats, with sardonic disbelief, a couplet picked up from the stereo or the TV. 'What does that mean, then?' my mother asked me during Top of the Pops. "Get it on / Bang a gong"? How long did it take him to think of that, do you reckon?' And the correct answer - 'Two seconds, and it doesn't matter' - is always beyond you, so you just tell her to shut up, w.. | music | Nick Hornby | |
| d0dc099 | Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality. | literature literature-quotes nick-hornby novel | Nick Hornby | |
| 7a76dba | He wanted Rachel to be his wife, his lover, the centre of his whole world; a girlfriend implied that he would see her from time to time, that she would have some kind of independent existence away from him, and he didn't want that at all. | Nick Hornby | ||
| cad8604 | Ken didn't die for your benefit, you know. It's like everyone's a supporting actor in the flm of your life story." Of course. Isn't that how it works for everybody?" | Nick Hornby | ||
| 22c8dca | he's lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 15c725d | Will hated Christmas, for the obvious reason: people knocked on his door, singing the song he hated more than any song in the world and expected him to give them money. | Nick Hornby | ||
| f218b1e | I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away games or the sports pages, and hooliganism has given me both a taste for sociology and a degree of fieldwork experience. I have learned the value of investing time and emotion in things I cannot control, and of belonging to a community whose aspirations I share completely and uncritically. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 26bfd1e | She had come out tonight because she believed there had to be a present tense, somewhere, and she'd followed Gav and Barnesy because she'd hoped they knew where it was. Is. And they'd dragged her to yet another haunted house. Where was the now? In bloody America, probably, apart from the bit that Tucker lived in, or in bloody Tokyo. In any case, it was somewhere else. How could people who didn't live in bloody America or bloody Tokyo stand .. | Nick Hornby | ||
| fce6b9b | If he'd known how long he was going to spend in the airport lounge of his own life, he'd have made different travel arrangements.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 33fe2e8 | I'd saw there were millions like me, but there aren't, really: lots of blokes have impeccable music taste but don't read, lots of blokes read but are really fat, lots of blokes are sympathetic to feminism but have stupid beards, lots of blokes have a Woody Allen sense of humor but look like Woody Allen. | Nick Hornby | ||
| c43df92 | Sorry Maureen. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 57db84c | I wanted to hurt her, on this day of all days, just because it's the first time since she left that I've been able to. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 40e2eac | He had to say that the thing he found most attractive about her was that she had tried to kill herself. Now that was interesting-- sexy, almost, in a morbid kind of way. | Nick Hornby | ||
| eb71de6 | When I look at my sins (and if I think they're sins, then they are sins), I can see the appeal of born-again Christianity. I suspect that it's not the Christianity that is so alluring; it's the rebirth. Because who wouldn't wish to start all over again? | Nick Hornby | ||
| 29f00fa | I had discovered after the Swindon game that loyalty, at least in football terms, was not a moral choice like bravery or kindness; it was more like a wart or a hump, something you were stuck with. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 6949d39 | What better way to exorcise rejection demons than to screw the person who rejected you? | Nick Hornby | ||
| 3e33b89 | This time, something different happens, though. It's the daydreaming that does it. I'm doing the usual thing--imagining in tiny detail the entire course of the relationship, from first kiss, to bed, to moving in together, to getting married (in the past I have even organized the track listing of the party tapes), to how pretty she'll look when she's pregnant, to names of children--until suddenly I realize that there's nothing left to actual.. | relationships | Nick Hornby | |
| 9e40e9d | These things are going to eat away at me... I rewrite the script in my head until it's 100-proof poison, and none of it helps at all. | Nick Hornby | ||
| f3f98b3 | One can only presume that people who say that their favorite record of all time reminds them of their honeymoon in Corsica, or of their family Chihuahua, don't actually like music very much. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 0271d24 | Darnley, who, like Banquo's ghost, seemed to play a much more effective part in Scottish politics once he was dead than when he was alive. | scotland | Antonia Fraser | |
| a3542b9 | It lies in humanity's infinite capacity for self-deception where some perceived (and in this case long-desired) advantage is at stake | Antonia Fraser | ||
| d131c60 | Wherever I may be In the woods or in the fields Whatever the hours of day Be it dawn or the eventide My heart still feels it yet The eternal regret... As I sink into my sleep The absent one is near Alone upon my couch I feel his beloved touch | mary-queen-of-scots | Mary Queen Of Scots | |
| dcc0df5 | I must bear it well as I may. As my sainted mother used to say, we never come to the kingdom of Heaven but by troubles. | bearing-pain bloody-mary queen-mary-i | Alison Weir | |
| fd954cc | A husband or wife did not have the right either to demand sex from his or her spouse or to refuse it, and there was a catalogue of forbidden sexual practices, notably homosexuality, bestiality, certain sexual positions, masturbation, the use of aphrodisiacs, and oral sex, which could incur a penance of three years' duration. Nor were people to make love on Sundays, holy days, or feast days, or during Lent, pregnancy, or menstruation. People.. | rape religion sexuality | Alison Weir | |
| f67c820 | My lady, for your virtue and goodness, God would receive you in rags. | jane-grey | Alison Weir | |
| cd38a19 | Katherine of Aragon was a staunch but misguided woman of principle; Anne Boleyn an ambitious adventuress with a penchant for vengeance; Jane Seymour a strong-minded matriarch in the making; Anne of Cleves a good-humoured woman who jumped at the chance of independence; Katherine Howard an empty-headed wanton; and Katherine Parr a godly matron who was nevertheless all too human when it came to a handsome rogue. | Alison Weir |