Milan Kundera Quotes
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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I grew up in war and saw the United Nations help my country to recover and rebuild. That experience was a big part of what led me to pursue a career in public service. As Secretary-General, I am determined to see this organization deliver tangible, meaningful results that advance peace, development and human rights.
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By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
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George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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After Madrid, we intensified our investigative efforts once again, and we are in the process of bringing about expansions in security laws and creating an index file system.
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
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It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself.
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Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.
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I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.
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I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who are deprived of their land and condemned to exile.
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McLaren was a risky project because they were completely new, but we are one team - we win and we lose together.
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I'm not a homosexual, but if I can be an ally for that issue, I think it's fantastic.
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A lot of these American actors have this - in my view - misplaced view that they have to look like Action Man. The trouble is, they all run the risk of being interchangeable.
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Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
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I served, she came to the net, it was a passing shot.
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People are finding it harder and harder to relate to foreign policy.
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In the cab to the station, he told me that when he was growing up he'd see a look of pleasure cross his mother's face and ask what she was thinking: she'd say, I was just thinking of your father. "That's how I want us to be," Archie said. I smiled. "What?" I said, "I was just thinking of your father.
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Mouth with my hand as I look up to his dark eyes, eyes that crinkle a little at the corners. He smooths back my hair from my forehead. “Is that happiness too?” I let go of a soft laugh. “I don’t know. Let me try again.” And I pull him closer, lean back, and invite him to press into me as the ferry chugs across the water and the family nearby shrieks over raindrops that start to fall. I’m aware of a big drop that splashes on my forehead and a pair.
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To laugh is to live profoundly.
