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Quote by Milan Kundera
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. – Milan Kundera

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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even ones own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. – Milan Kundera

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Imagination
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A worker may be the hammers master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. – Milan Kundera

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Tools
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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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Shame
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Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And – and we have bus loads of kids, who dont get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it. – Michael Jackson

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Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion. – Miguel de Unamuno

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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. – Lao Tzu

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Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence. – Erich Fromm

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