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Quote by Milan Kundera
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear rid

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. – Milan Kundera

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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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Love
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Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. – Milan Kundera

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News
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Ah, the joy of suckling! She lovingly watched the fishlike motions of the toothless mouth and she imagined that with her milk there flowed into her little son her deepest thoughts, concepts, and dreams. – Milan Kundera

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Breastfeeding
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I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. Im phobic about it. So when Im writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me. – Anthony Horowitz

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Fear

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. – George Bernard Shaw

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Fear

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. – Benjamin Disraeli

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Fear

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. – Emile M. Cioran

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Some men laugh habitually in falsetto…. We remember once to have heard a feminine laugh so painfully and regularly tuneful that it could literally have been reduced to musical notation. – “Laughter,” in The Spectator for the week ending Saturday, January 19, 1889

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Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face. – Arthur Koestler

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The world knows how to straighten out a spoiled child but never makes it up to a child deprived. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning. – Lillian Gish

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