In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia.
~ Milan Kundera
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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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The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it.
~ Milan Kundera
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Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
~ Gertrude Stein
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From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional. If they were not, the world would be at a stand-still and death would speedily ensue. It is one of the tamest of platitudes but it is always introduced by a flourish of trumpets.
~ Gertrude Stein
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