#Milan Kundera

Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo

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 Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo

Feb 06,2024

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The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is

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 The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is

Dec 05,2023

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But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

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 But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

Jan 17,2023

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Yes, it’s a well-known fact about you: you’re like death, you take everything.

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 Yes, it’s a well-known fact about you: you’re like death, you take everything.

Dec 24,2022

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O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you’ve brought breakfast in bed you’ll have to bring it forever,

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 O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you’ve brought breakfast in bed you’ll have to bring it forever,

Nov 20,2021

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For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the

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 For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the

Apr 28,2021

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There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

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 There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Apr 16,2021

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That darkness was pure, perfect, thoughtless, visionless; that darkness was without end, without borders; that darkness was

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 That darkness was pure, perfect, thoughtless, visionless; that darkness was without end, without borders; that darkness was

Apr 14,2021

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He was well aware that of the two or three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his life?)

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 He was well aware that of the two or three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his life?)

Jan 25,2021

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The more vast the amount of time we’ve left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.

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 The more vast the amount of time we’ve left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.

Oct 31,2020

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