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Quotes by Czechoslovakian Authors
"I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in."
"I tell you, in my opinion, the cornerstone of democracy is free press - that's the cornerstone."
"You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end."
"I was paid to read Western economic texts. In a way, the regime paid for their own undermining."
"They taught us because they wanted to pass the knowledge on and educate young musicians. It was not because they had to teach because they failed as musicians. There is a huge difference in the reasons why someone is teaching and what they can offer and what they cannot offer."
"So, thanks God, our films, our first films were suddenly being appreciated by the Western media; especially France was very good, and Switzerland was very good."
"An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type."
"You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing."
"Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything."
"There is the glamour side of it, which allows you to meet great variety of people with whom you simply can have a good time, but there's also the sad side of it that drags you into a superficial and artificial world."
"That means following a very restrictive fiscal and monetary policy which will squeeze the monopolies and cut their subsidies. On the micro level we will allow other economic agents, both domestic and foreign, to compete with them."
"The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass."
"So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game."
"It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people."
"There is no roles. No one is keeping any roles. The drummer is also answering everybody and everything. So it is a constant conversation and communication between musicians on an extremely high level with extremely valuable material, motifs, and melodies."
"I remember in 1968 when we were in Cannes, in the festival, and we were supposed to be there 10 days, and the second day the festival collapsed because the French, you know, film-makers raised the red flag in the festival and ended the festival."
"There are so many people I wish I could have met:"
"If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death."
"If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge."
"Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body."
"The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death."
"He was looking for immensity. His life was hopelessly small, everything surrounding him was nondescript and gray. And death is absolute; it is indivisible and indissoluble. The presence of the girl was pathetic (a few caresses and a lot of meaningless words), but her absolute absence was infinitely grand; when he imagined a girl buried in a field, he suddenly discovered the nobility of pain and the grandeur of love. But it was not only the absolute but also bliss he was looking for in his dreams of death."
"As she uttered the words of the prayer, she glanced up at him as if he were God Himself. He watched her with growing pleasure. In front of him was kneeling the directress, being humiliated by a subordinate; in front of him a naked revolutionary was being humiliated by prayer; in front of him a praying lady was being humiliated by her nakedness.This threefold image of degradation intoxicated him and something unexpected suddenly happened: his body revoked its passive resistance. Edward was excited!As the directress said, 'And lead us not into temptation,' he quickly threw off all his clothes. When she said, 'Amen,' he violently lifted her off the floor and dragged her onto the couch."
"Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest."
"A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm."
"We're constantly buying airplane tickets; we travel on the Concorde."
"You know what happened, you know, in 1938: France, England, you know, just sold out Czechoslovakia to Hitler."
"Actually, I don't really like being confused with my image."
"We are very isolated, far from boyfriends and friends, so we have to be strong, smart and very professional."
"I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies."
"In the first day of the Soviet Army's arrival, I and the other comrades were isolated and then found ourselves here, not knowing anything... I can only conjecture what could have happened."
"Walt Disney was my great hero."
"People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still."
"A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience."
"An old villa surrounded by a garden looked to them like the image of a comforting home, the dream of an idyll long past."
"According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes."
"Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen."
"It was wonderful to play such a part, but I was disappointed with the picture."
"Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs, the country ravished daily by new hordes, all his neighbors taken out and shot - he could accept it all more easily than he dared to admit. But the grief implicit in Tereza's dream was something he could not endure."
"I make money because I have to pay for everything apart from my school fees. My mother even makes me pay my own telephone bill."
"Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation."
"The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought."
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