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Love4 quotes
Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. — Milan Kundera · 1984Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1929The 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. — Milan Kundera · 1984Love is to me that you are the knife which I turn within myself. — Franz Kafka · 1920Books2 quotes
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. — Franz Kafka · 1904I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us... We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us. — Franz Kafka · 1904Connecting with others2 quotes
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1901Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1929Kitsch2 quotes
Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence. — Milan Kundera · 1985None among us is superman enough to escape kitsch completely. No matter how we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition. — Milan Kundera · 1984Memory2 quotes
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. — Milan Kundera · 1984The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. — Milan Kundera · 1979Relationships2 quotes
We need in love to practice only this:
Letting each other go. For holding on
Comes easily; we do not need to learn it. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1909I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1902Solitude2 quotes
Love your solitude and bear with sweet-sounding lamentation the suffering it causes you. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1929I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1902Alienation1 quote
When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. — Franz Kafka · 1915Alienation from oneself1 quote
When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. — Franz Kafka · 1915Art1 quote
A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1929Change1 quote
When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. — Franz Kafka · 1915Children1 quote
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. — Milan Kundera · 1979Compassion1 quote
For there is nothing heavier than compassion. 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 · 1984Courage1 quote
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. — Vaclav Havel · 2007Cultural evolution1 quote
Cultural evolution is equivalent to the removal of ornament from articles in daily use. — Adolf Loos · 1910Dangers of love1 quote
Love is to me that you are the knife which I turn within myself. — Franz Kafka · 1920Death1 quote
Death is the side of life which is turned away from us. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1925Divorce1 quote
Ladies, you have to be strong and independent, and remember, don't get mad, get everything. — Ivana Trump · 1996Effects of the past1 quote
The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke us and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. — Milan Kundera · 1979Emotions1 quote
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. — Milan Kundera · 1984Empathy1 quote
For there is nothing heavier than compassion. 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 · 1984Escape1 quote
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person. — Milan Kundera · 1984Fate1 quote
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 · 1929Fear1 quote
Who has not sat nervously before the stage curtain of his heart? — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1923Fighting injustice1 quote
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. — Milan Kundera · 1979Happiness1 quote
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. — Milan Kundera · 1984History1 quote
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. — Milan Kundera · 1979Home1 quote
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person. — Milan Kundera · 1984Independence1 quote
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other. — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1902Introspection1 quote
Who has not sat nervously before the stage curtain of his heart? — Rainer Maria Rilke · 1923