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People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.


Milan Kundera

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OSCAR AULIQ-ICE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
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VI KEELAND May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
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GERMANY KENT To question reason is to trust it.
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ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best.
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JOSS WHEDON He created us for adventure, not ease.
MARY E. DEMUTH To be or not to be that is the question.
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- Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ...
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HABEEB AKANDE Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
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JACINTA MPALYENKANA Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
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MARK TWAIN Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti...
FENNEL HUDSON I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
THOMAS JEFFERSON Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the fu...
JOHN F KENNEDY Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the fu...
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JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY For as much as you can, build the past and the future that you can carry yourself.
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ANTHONY LICCIONE Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
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MICHAEL HARRIS Typing is the future of talking and to don't forgot and brother of feature.
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Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
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JASON T. ROGERS It's a a damn good day to be alive.
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the lesson.
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"I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs."
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MILAN KUNDERA Of course, these were only dreams. How could a sensible woman leave a happy marriage? All the same, ...
MILAN KUNDERA Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by t...
MILAN KUNDERA Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists
MILAN KUNDERA This is the image from which he was born...... Characters are not born, like people, of woman; they ...
MILAN KUNDERA Man's world is the planet of inexperience.
MILAN KUNDERA We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our pr...
MILAN KUNDERA Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
MILAN KUNDERA Estoy bajo el agua y los latidos de mi corazón producen círculos en la superficie.
MILAN KUNDERA The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes fr...
MILAN KUNDERA Vlasta me reprocha que soy un soñador. Parece que no veo las cosas tal como son. No, veo las cosas ...
MILAN KUNDERA But was it love? Was it simply the hysteria of a man who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love...
MILAN KUNDERA for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain on...
MILAN KUNDERA Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.
MILAN KUNDERA Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different b...
MILAN KUNDERA The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused...
MILAN KUNDERA A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individ...
MILAN KUNDERA There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one fe...
MILAN KUNDERA The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually...
MILAN KUNDERA The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of f...
MILAN KUNDERA Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now ...
MILAN KUNDERA Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the wa...
MILAN KUNDERA Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
MILAN KUNDERA The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
MILAN KUNDERA 'I think therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches
MILAN KUNDERA A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the n...
MILAN KUNDERA The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance...
MILAN KUNDERA Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.
MILAN KUNDERA The Transformation of music into noise was a planetary process by which mankind was entering the his...
MILAN KUNDERA In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotin...
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