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You always put things at risk. If you fell out of a tree as a child, I'd clean you up and bandage your knees, and next I looked you'd be out climbing again. You never learned your lesson."

Oh, she'd learned her lesson. Climb harder.


Courtney Milan

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MILAN KUNDERA For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from t...
MILAN KUNDERA For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves not others, was possible only away from the ...
MILAN KUNDERA Horror is a shock, a time of utter blindness. Horror lacks every hint of beauty. All we can see is t...
MILAN KUNDERA Totalitarianism is not only hell, but all the dream of paradise-- the age-old dream of a world where...
MILAN KUNDERA It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of...
MILAN KUNDERA True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has...
MILAN KUNDERA On Jennifer Lopez, who had a big hit with Play which was written by Christina: At the studio she sai...
CHRISTINA MILAN We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our em...
MILAN KUNDERA Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
MILAN KUNDERA I find myself fascinating.
MILAN KUNDERA This is the image from which he was born...... Characters are not born, like people, of woman; they ...
MILAN KUNDERA This is an uprising of a humiliated and impoverished nation.
MILAN PROTIC Knowledge and skill is all you will ever need, if you can rob a the worlds most secure bank and get ...
MILAN STOJILOVIC Why climb to the top of you won't look down?
MILAN STOJILOVIC In today's society we look down so much that when we say "look up" we really mean look forward.
MILAN STOJILOVIC People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all.
MILAN KUNDERA Having had occasion in the past to observe Communist statesmen, I saw with surprise that they were o...
MILAN KUNDERA We are assuming that the shock from a flu epidemic would be even bigger than from SARS.
MILAN BRAHMBHATT A man is responsible for his ignorance.
MILAN KUNDERA Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said.
Because love means renouncing strength,"...
MILAN KUNDERA Does he love me? Does he love anyone more than me? Does he love me more than I love him? Perhaps all...
MILAN KUNDERA The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows n...
MILAN KUNDERA And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
MILAN KUNDERA loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.
MILAN KUNDERA There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We ...
MILAN KUNDERA I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.
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