The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters. - Milan Kundera - Quotesmemo.com

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We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

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Milan Kundera

The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.

Character, Characters, Existence, Meditation, Novel

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Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.

Animal, Attitude, Compassion, Mercy, Test

In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

Home, Mind, Thought, Unbearable

The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fullfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into new heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?

Air, Causes, Choose, Image, Men, Real

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

Desire, Feels, Frantic, Way

Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know the present? Is he in a position to make any judgment about it? Certainly not. For how can a person with no knowledge of the future understand the meaning of the present? If we do not know what future the present is leading us toward, how can we say whether this present is good or bad, whether it deserves our concurrence, or our suspicion, or our hatred?

Certain, Hatred, Judgment, Knowledge, Meaning, Men

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I want to make something I would find joy in consuming. Personally, I enjoy those projects that are worth me investing time and energy and thought into, to find a work that has more to say than will fit in a 4 minute song.

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Dallin H. Oaks

Dallin H. Oaks

Pornographic or erotic stories and pictures are worse than filthy or polluted food. The body has defenses to rid itself of unwholesome food. With a few fatal exceptions, bad food will only make you sick but do no permanent harm. In contrast, a person who feasts upon filthy stories or pornographic or erotic pictures and literature records them in this marvelous retrieval system we call a brain. The brain won't vomit back filth. Once recorded, it will always remain subject to recall, flashing its perverted images across your mind and drawing you away from the wholesome things in life.

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Henri Nouwen

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We have to trust that our stories deserve to be told. We may discover that the better we tell our stories the better we will want to live them.

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Henry Ford

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When I see an Alfa Romeo go by, I tip my hat.

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What happened was simple, even banal: I became naked, died, lost parts of my flesh and most of my ego along with a few illusions such as a belief in the uniqueness of my personal scrap of consciousness and the cosmic importance therof, and went on from there.

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