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Quote by Milan Kundera
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the i

The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone. – Milan Kundera

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To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace. – Milan Kundera

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Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress. – Milan Kundera

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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. – Edmund Burke

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Oh! no! we never mention her, her name is never heard; my lips are now forbid to speak, that once familiar word. – Thomas Haynes Bayly

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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous. – Salvador Dali

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An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent. – Edmund Burke

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