When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.

Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.

Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

A man able to think isn't defeated - even when he is defeated.

Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.

The eye... the point where a person's identity is concentrated.

Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.

If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him.

In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

But if God is gone and man is no longer master, then who is master?

In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos.

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question.

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.

Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas

And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?

On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

God has been kind to dogs in no putting a sense of beauty into their heads.

The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.

The rediscovered path, where were left the traces of childhood's lost steps.

Attaching love to sex is one of the most bizarre ideas the Creator ever had.

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.

Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.

At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.

The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.

Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness.

There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.

Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy.

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