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Quote by Milan Kundera
The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental

The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen. – Milan Kundera

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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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Mankinds true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. – Milan Kundera

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People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because theyre going deaf, it has to be played louder still. – Milan Kundera

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People remain what they are even if their faces fall apart. – Bertolt Brecht

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It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million faces, there should be none alike. – Sir Thomas Browne

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It has been said that a pretty face is a passport. But its not, its a visa, and it runs out fast. – Julie Burchill

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