Ignorance

by Milan Kundera
Czech Republic
Born on 1 Apr 1929
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All predictions are wrong, that's one of the few certainties granted to mankind.

Ignorance
Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past.

Ignorance
And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.

Ignorance
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
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Ignorance

Milan Kundera

 

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."
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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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