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The Festival of Insignificance - Bilingual quotes that celebrate the beauty of language, showcasing meaningful expressions in two unique perspectives.
The Festival of Insignificance is a novel by Milan Kundera that explores themes of existence, identity, and the nature of happiness. Set in a vibrant, albeit superficial, Paris, the narrative follows a group of friends as they navigate their lives filled with trivial pursuits and fleeting moments of joy. The...
The completion of human history is not what I dreamed of, nor to cancel the future, no, no, what I wished is the total disappearance of human beings with their future and past, with their beginning and end, with every period of their existence, with their entire memory, with Nero and Napoleon, with Buddha and Christ, I wished the annihilation The kidneys of a tree rooted in a small stomach without a navel to the first foolish woman who did not know what she was doing, and any horrors We assigned her miserable intercourse, which did not give her any fun
Milan Kundera The Festival of Insignificance
The completion of human history is not what I dreamed of, nor to cancel the future, no, no, what I wished is the total disappearance of human beings with their future and past, with their beginning and end, with every period of their existence, with their entire memory, with Nero and Napoleon, with Buddha and Christ, I wished the annihilation The kidneys of a tree rooted in a small stomach without a navel to the first foolish woman who did not know what she was doing, and any horrors We assigned her miserable intercourse, which did not give her any fun
The insignificance, my friend, is the essence of existence.
Milan Kundera The Festival of Insignificance
The insignificance, my friend, is the essence of existence.
Life is stronger than death, because life feeds on death!
Milan Kundera The Festival of Insignificance
Life is stronger than death, because life feeds on death!
But how to define the eroticism of a man {or an era} that sees female seductive power as centered in the middle of the body, in the navel?
Milan Kundera The Festival of Insignificance
But how to define the eroticism of a man {or an era} that sees female seductive power as centered in the middle of the body, in the navel?
When a shiny man tries to seduce a woman, she has the impression that she enters into competition, she is also forced to shine, and does not give herself without resistance. While the banality liberates it, stripping it of caution. Do not require any attendance at the usuria, make it indifferent and then easy to reach
Milan Kundera The Festival of Insignificance
When a shiny man tries to seduce a woman, she has the impression that she enters into competition, she is also forced to shine, and does not give herself without resistance. While the banality liberates it, stripping it of caution. Do not require any attendance at the usuria, make it indifferent and then easy to reach
The only thing we have left to do is the rebellion against the fate we did not choose.
Milan Kundera The Festival of Insignificance
The only thing we have left to do is the rebellion against the fate we did not choose.
Whoever apologizes, he admits his guilt, and when you recognize your sin, you encourage the other to continue to insult you and expose you in public until your death are the dire consequences of apologizing .. This is true, one must not apologize, but I am the best world in which all people apologize, without exception, unnecessarily, and excessively for nothing ..
Milan Kundera The Festival of Insignificance
Whoever apologizes, he admits his guilt, and when you recognize your sin, you encourage the other to continue to insult you and expose you in public until your death are the dire consequences of apologizing .. This is true, one must not apologize, but I am the best world in which all people apologize, without exception, unnecessarily, and excessively for nothing ..
Do you allow me to call you a fool? Yes, do not get angry, you are a fool in my opinion. Do you know the source of your foolishness? It is your kindness! Your ridiculous kindness!
Milan Kundera The Festival of Insignificance
Do you allow me to call you a fool? Yes, do not get angry, you are a fool in my opinion. Do you know the source of your foolishness? It is your kindness! Your ridiculous kindness!
Look! Half of those you see at least ugly! To be ugly! Is this also a part of human rights? Do you know that he carries his ugliness throughout his life? Without any comfort? Your gender too, you did not choose it. You did not choose the color of your eyes or the century in which you live. Nor your country. Nor your mother. Not anything is important. The rights that a person can obtain are only related to trivialities, and there is no reason for the conflict about them or writing famous advertisements about them.
Milan Kundera The Festival of Insignificance
Look! Half of those you see at least ugly! To be ugly! Is this also a part of human rights? Do you know that he carries his ugliness throughout his life? Without any comfort? Your gender too, you did not choose it. You did not choose the color of your eyes or the century in which you live. Nor your country. Nor your mother. Not anything is important. The rights that a person can obtain are only related to trivialities, and there is no reason for the conflict about them or writing famous advertisements about them.
They are ready to go anywhere, to do anything, just to kill the time they do not know what to do. They don't know anything, so they give up to the leadership
Milan Kundera The Festival of Insignificance
They are ready to go anywhere, to do anything, just to kill the time they do not know what to do. They don't know anything, so they give up to the leadership
The children laughing without knowing why - isn't that beautiful?
Milan Kundera The Festival of Insignificance
The children laughing without knowing why - isn't that beautiful?
My friend is the essence of existence.
Milan Kundera The Festival of Insignificance
My friend is the essence of existence.
Life is everyone's struggle against everyone.
Milan Kundera The Festival of Insignificance
Life is everyone's struggle against everyone.
People meet in the course of life, they talk together, they discuss, they quarrel, without realizing that they're talking to one another across a distance, each from an observation post standing in a different place in time.
Milan Kundera The Festival of Insignificance
People meet in the course of life, they talk together, they discuss, they quarrel, without realizing that they're talking to one another across a distance, each from an observation post standing in a different place in time.
And think about the precise meaning of that term: a Narcissus is not proud. A proud man has disdain for other people, he undervalues them. The Narcissus overvalues them, because in every person's eyes he sees his own image, and wants to embellish it. So he takes nice care of all his mirrors.
Milan Kundera The Festival of Insignificance
And think about the precise meaning of that term: a Narcissus is not proud. A proud man has disdain for other people, he undervalues them. The Narcissus overvalues them, because in every person's eyes he sees his own image, and wants to embellish it. So he takes nice care of all his mirrors.
The human being is only a feeling of loneliness. One is surrounded by lonely.
Milan Kundera The Festival of Insignificance
The human being is only a feeling of loneliness. One is surrounded by lonely.
We've known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There's been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously.
Milan Kundera The Festival of Insignificance
We've known for a long time that it was no longer possible to overturn this world, nor reshape it, nor head off its dangerous headlong rush. There's been only one possible resistance: to not take it seriously.
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