February 2010
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“He would try to scare them by describing the fearsome prospect of loneliness. To...”
– Milan Kundera - Ignorance
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“Loving yourself in a world of hate is the most radical, the most political thing...”
– Erotica writer G.L. Morrison (via pdvmorris)
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“Parents should leave books lying around marked “forbidden” if they...”
– Doris Lessing
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“In Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy,...”
– Milan Kundera - Ignorance
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The Minotaur
I was a monster. I knew. At home in the stone prison, innocent, amazed, I simply was. But then they came— fair and afraid. I looked, held them in my gaze, saw it in their eyes: the other. A monster. Me. Devoured what they had taught: beauty. Became its absence. Lay down in welcoming mud, offered up my misborn head. Took the blows. Was glad.
Leslie Harrison
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“I imagine the feelings of two people meeting again after many years. […]...”
– Milan Kundera - Ignorance
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The Spring Campaigns
Other men remember the false gardens of love, and the days they were in love or thought they were in love, and others the books they read as children, books that marked their lives forever, though they couldn’t know in those days how the real world operates. And all of them take comfort in this way and even grow enthusiastic when they realize that memory can shape itself at will and...
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“Love is the glorification of the present.”
– Milan Kundera - Ignorance
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