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Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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