Quotes · Skopia

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The symphony must be like the world; it must embrace everything.

1907

★ 1.0

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting · 1979

★ 1.0

Love is to me that you are the knife which I turn within myself.

1920

★ 1.2

Children are the future not because they will one day be adults but because humanity is becoming more and more a child, because childhood is the image of the future.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting · 1979

★ 1.8

Lack of ornament is a sign of spiritual strength.

1908

★ 1.9

People have already had to rethink so many concepts of motion, and they will also gradually come to realize that what we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1929

★ 1.9

The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke us and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting · 1979

★ 1.9

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view) consists of its attitudes towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 1.9

The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful... Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 1.9

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 1.9

Truth is not merely what we are thinking, but also why, to whom, and under what circumstances we say it.

1985

★ 1.9

Autobiography and memoir

You can't spend your whole life criticizing something and then when you have the chance to do it better refuse to go near it.

2007

★ 1.9

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1929

★ 1.9

None among us is superman enough to escape kitsch completely. No matter how we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 1.9

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 1.9

Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1985

★ 1.9

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 2.0

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 2.0

Cultural evolution is equivalent to the removal of ornament from articles in daily use.

1910

★ 3.5

A good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude.

Rainer Maria Rilke

1901

★ 3.5

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