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Anyone whose goal is 'somethin...

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.

Milan Kundera 457 quotes

I have no mission. No one has....

I have no mission. No one has.

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You can't measure the mutual a...

You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

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Two people in love, alone, iso...

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

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There is no perfection only li...

There is no perfection only life

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People are always shouting the...

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

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Chance and chance alone has a ...

Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.

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Once the writer in every indiv...

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

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The greater the ambiguity, the...

The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.

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A single metaphor can give bir...

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

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Oh lovers! be careful in those...

Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

Milan Kundera 457 quotes

People are always shouting the...

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.

Milan Kundera 457 quotes

Love is the longing for the ha...

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

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Living is being happy: seeing,...

Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.

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We can never know what to want...

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 our lives to come.

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In the sunset of dissolution, ...

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

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The basis of shame is not some...

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

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A mismatched outfit, a slightl...

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.' ~The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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He was well aware that of the ...

He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his life?) only two or three were really essential and unforgettable. The rest were mere echoes, imitations, repetitions, or reminiscences.

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By giving the love act a name,...

By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, 'it,' he paved the way for other words, words that would reflect physical love as in a set of mirrors.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....