“The moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies…”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody has decided not to see.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
“Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.”
― The Fountainhead
― The Fountainhead
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