Milan Kundera quotes
Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.
Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.
Nothing he said could change what I think of you. I've had my mind made up about you for a long time... and it's all good.
Do you miss Wales?Ђќ Tessa inquired. Will shrugged lightly. 'What's to miss? Sheep and singing,Ђќ he said. 'And the ridiculous language. Fe hoffwn i fod mor feddw, fyddai ddim yn cofio fy enw.Ђќ 'What does that mean?Ђќ 'It means 'I wish to get so drunk I no longer remember my own name,' Quite useful.
Everything is true,' he said. 'Everything anybody has ever thought.' 'Will you be all right?' 'I'll be all right,' he said, and thought, And I'm going to die. Both those are true, too.
God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller asп»ї time moves on.
She is very plain. What does Henry see in her?'' 'He thinks she's stupid. He finds it restful.
Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc)
You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a child, strangers. Always a woman and child. Mam finds them wandering the streets and if they ask, Could you spare a few pennies, miss? her heart breaks. She never has money so she invites them home for tea and a bit of fried bread and if it's a bad night she'll let them sleep by the fire on a pile of rags in the corner. The bread she gives them always means less for us and if we complain she says there are always people
Yo can always take back the lost parts of yourself if you can find and recognize them.
For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's lifeЂ'uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which 'smell sweet, and blossom in the dust', the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all.
With a changing key, you unlock the house where the snow of what's silenced drifts. Just like the blood that bursts from Your eye or mouth or ear, so your key changes. Changing your key changes the word That may drift with flakes. Just like the wind that rebuffs you, Clenched round your word is the snow.
Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.
The motto of all the mongoose family is, 'Run and find out,' and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.
We're meant to be friends but you never tell me anything.
The two brothers who sought to get their only family back, to feel her warmth, one lost his last family member and the other could never feel warmth again. The one who wanted her baby back lost chance of having one again, And the one who had a vision to see his country change became blind.
The things they don't tell you in schools these days, geez. Have a look at your owners. The politicians are put there to give you the idea you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice; you have owners. They own you. They own everything.
There. She had thanked Sebastian. She waited for a bolt of lightning to shoot out of the clouds and striker her dead. But nothing happened.
And spare me the jokes about scoring.' 'Dammit, woman, you read my mind,' he said. 'Is there no filthy wordplay you can't forsee?' 'It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dirty thoughts.' 'So, ninety-five percent of the time.
Does that mean you agree?' He groaned. 'I think it means you crushed my spirit and beat me down.' 'Fantastic.
That night the wind was howling almost like a wolf and there were some real wolves off to the west giving it lessons.