The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.
~ John Lanchester
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The person doing the worrying experiences it as a form of love; the person being worried about experiences it as a form of control.
~ John Lanchester
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If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be history of its successive regrets and impotence.
~ Albert Camus
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You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
~ Milan Kundera
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.
~ Milan Kundera
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Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
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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 most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.
~ George Orwell
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The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten.
~ Milan Kundera
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Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims, but by the way it kills them.
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
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Where there is power, there is resistance.
― Michel Foucault
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