The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.


Milan Kundera

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In that etymological light nostalgia seems something like the pain of ignorance, of not knowing. You...
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If in the past people would listen to music out of love for music, nowadays it roars everywhere and ...
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إذ يستطيع جيشان كبيران أن يتصارعا حتى الموت من أجل قضاي...
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A person who messes up her goodbyes shouldn't expect much from her reunions.
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That’s another enigma about memory, more basic than all the rest: do recollections have some measu...
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كلما كان الزمن الذي نخلفه وراءنا أكبر كلما أصبح الصوت ا...
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In Spanish añoranza comes from the verb añorar (to feel nostalgia), which comes from the Catalan e...
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Remembering now all those farewells (fake farewells, worked-up farewells), Irena thinks: a person wh...
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تختفي الذكريات إذا لم تُستحضر مرة وأخرى في أحاديث الأص�...
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أتخيل انفعال كائنين يلتقيان بعد سنوات. قديما تعاشرا، ف�...
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Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it ...
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When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (the...
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We will never cease our critique of those persons who distort the past, rewrite it, falsify it, who ...
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En griego, «regreso» se dice nostos. Algos significa “sufrimiento”. La nostalgia es, pues, el ...
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And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love...
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The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us...
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Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know ...
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To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't deat...
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The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment ...
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Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything ex...
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Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.
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The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place ...
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But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.
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Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and ...
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When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of he...
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Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional ...
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Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she...
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The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of f...
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In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone w...
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A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with clean underwear -instead of...
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I had all kinds of answers ready for the commissions that called me in and asked me what had made me...
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Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll...
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I know, brother, that you are a straightforward man, and that you pride yourself on it. But put one ...
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Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.
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Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by t...
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Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists
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Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.
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To laugh is to live profoundly.
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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting
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The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
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There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age ...
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