Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.
~ Milan Kundera
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Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.
~ Milan Kundera
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In its flight from death, the craving for permanence clings to the very things sure to be lost in death.
~ Hannah Arendt
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To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous.
~ Confucius
The time which we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains.
~ Marcel Proust
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Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of great distress.
~ Milan Kundera
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The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.
~ Marcel Proust
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In love, happiness is an abnormal state.
~ Marcel Proust
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When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.
~ Milan Kundera
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When a country is well governed, poverty and a mean condition are things to be ashamed of. When a country is ill governed, riches and honor are things to be ashamed of.
~ Confucius
Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
~ Milan Kundera
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