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Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.
Encounter
People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.
Ignorance
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
Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one�s painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.
Immortality
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
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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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