The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
~ Anton Chekhov
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The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.
~ Anton Chekhov
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Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.
~ Milan Kundera
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Progress imposes not only new possibilities for the future but new restrictions.
~ Norbert Wiener
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France is a picture already painted. America still has to be painted. Maybe that’s why I feel freer there. But when I work in America, it’s like shouting in a forest. There’s no echo.
~ Marc Chagall
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Man is the creature that cannot emerge from himself, that knows his fellows only in himself; when he asserts the contrary, he is lying.
~ Marcel Proust
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We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.
~ Milan Kundera
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The best environment for diplomacy is found where mutual confidence between governments exists.
~ Dean Acheson
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As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.
~ Milan Kundera
Try to learn to let what is unfair teach you.
~ David Foster Wallace
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No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
~ Milan Kundera
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