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Quotes by Czechoslovakian Authors
"Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles."
"He is still my father. He is still a person I know I could trust and he would never do anything against me. Once you're at the top, there are not many people like that. People always want something from you."
"If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein!"
"Because if you lived, as I did, several years under Nazi totalitarianism, and then 20 years in communist totalitarianism, you would certainly realize how precious freedom is, and how easy it is to lose your freedom."
"Do you think that a doe in the jaws of a tiger feels less horror than you? People thought up the idea that animals don't have the same capability for suffering as humans, because otherwise they couldn't bear the knowledge that they are surrounded by a world of nature that is horror and nothing but horror." Paul was pleased that man was gradually covering the whole earth with concrete. It was as if he were watching a cruel murderess being walled up."
"Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all."
"Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness."
"I have taken part in ceremonies with North American and Mexican shamans, as well as Brazilian ceremonies."
"I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me."
"Now, after the communist take-over in 1948, the amount of feature films produced dwindled to three a year, while the school was, you know, every year another three, four, five students."
"I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines."
"Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease."
"In Irena's head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the same time it dims her memory. She makes love wildly, lasciviously, and at the same time the curtain of oblivion wraps her lewdness in an all-concealing darkness. As if a poet were writing his greatest poem with ink that instantly disappears."
"Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it."
"But I also like to shower my parents with presents. I bought them a beautiful car and a house."
"It's a very hard and competitive business in which you have to fight every day in order to impose yourself."
"Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass."
"I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up."
"Biographers know nothing about the intimate sex lives of their own wives, but they think they know all about Stendhal's or Faulkner's."
"Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything."
"Ever since I was a very little girl, I've dreamed of acting."
"The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference."
"Because I just loved to spend two years of my life in the company of Andy Kaufman and other characters."
"Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do."
"No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too."
"But for the time being, I've only learned one cake recipe and how to make scrambled eggs."
"Otherwise, I spend a lot of time at my boyfriend's home in the country, in New Jersey."
"As long as I had easy access to psychedelics at the government-sponsored research project, most of my energy went into psychedelic sessions."
"Each of us can manifest the properties of a field of consciousness that transcends space, time, and linear causality."
"In any case, it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties."
"I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do."
"When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced."
"My acting coach makes the impossible accessible."
"A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with cleanunderwear-instead of being allowed to pursue something higher -stores up greatreserves of vitality, a vitality never dreamed of by university students yawning over theirbooks. (...) The difference between the universitygraduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in theextent of vitality and self-confidence. The elan with which Tereza flung herself into hernew Prague existence was both frenzied and precarious. She seemed to be expectingsomeone to come up to her any day and say, What are you doing here? Go back whereyou belong!"
"It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made."
"Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock."
"I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies."
"One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction."
"Many cultures have independently developed a belief system in reincarnation that includes return of the unit of consciousness to another physical lifetime on Earth."
"As soon as man began considering himself the source of the highest meaning in the world and the measure of everything, the world began to lose its human dimension, and man began to lose control of it."
"I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange."
"First of all, to defend my work, I had to believe that I am doing a totally silly, stupid, innocent comedy."
"The money in the schools overpowers the principles of the purpose."
"Seems like most of the kids today are into other sports other than tennis."
"Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!"
"I just travel all the time. And I was just looking at the schedules now and starting the first week of October I will be every weekend with somebody at tournaments through Christmas. So it gets very difficult to just go away and not do that."
"The psyche of the individual is commensurate with the totality of creative energy. This requires a most radical revision of Western psychology."
"I rarely do masks because, if I have any extra time, I'd rather spend it with my friends than on myself."
"He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street."
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