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Sadness is an emotion, but depression is a mindset.


Milan Stojilovic

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MILAN KUNDERA The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records ever...
MILAN KUNDERA A single metaphor can give birth to love.
MILAN KUNDERA she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as...
MILAN KUNDERA She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me t...
MILAN KUNDERA The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed...
MILAN KUNDERA [W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.
MILAN KUNDERA During the twenty years of Odesseus' absence, the people of Ithaca retained many recollections of hi...
MILAN KUNDERA ქვეყნისათვის სიცოცხლის გაწირვა: ყველ...
MILAN KUNDERA Mesmerized, all she can do is watch this piece of her life move off; all she can do is watch it and ...
MILAN KUNDERA All predictions are wrong, that's one of the few certainties granted to mankind.
MILAN KUNDERA In that etymological light nostalgia seems something like the pain of ignorance, of not knowing. You...
MILAN KUNDERA If in the past people would listen to music out of love for music, nowadays it roars everywhere and ...
MILAN KUNDERA إذ يستطيع جيشان كبيران أن يتصارعا حتى الموت من أجل قضاي...
MILAN KUNDERA A person who messes up her goodbyes shouldn't expect much from her reunions.
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