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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even ones own pain w

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

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You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. – Milan Kundera

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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. – Milan Kundera

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The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. – Albert Einstein

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Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment. – William Warburton

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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction. – Yann Martel

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Being an actor in movies is a lot about the power of your imagination and making the circumstance real to you so the audience will feel that its real. – Joel Kinnaman

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