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We must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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
She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.
Slowness
Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.
Laughable Loves
Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.
Immortality
The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
Slowness
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
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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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