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When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but that the world is turning into a concentration camp?
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The slogan of Hell: Eat or be eaten. The slogan of Heaven: Eat and be eaten.
A Certain World: A Commonplace Book
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
The Dyer's Hand
Into the life of no man has the mystery of the world entered so much. So familiarly, might I say. The mystery of the world finds not alone my thought, but my feeling also.
Manuscript
The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness
The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility
We do not inherit the Earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children
What is this world that is hastening me toward I know not what, viewing me with contempt?
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going
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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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