“Kitsch is the aesthetic ideal of all politicians and all political parties and movements. Those of us who live in a society where various political tendencies exist side by side and competing influences cancel or limit one another can manage more or less to escape the kitsch inquisition: the individual can preserve his individuality; the artist can create unusual works. But whenever a single political movement corners power, we find ourselves in the realm of totalitarian kitsch.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Life shouldn’t be measured in hours for the vagueness in which they exist, but moments; moments are memorable and we could easily say that a short life filled with a stock of extraordinary memories is worth a thousand times what a long, boring and loveless one is.”
― Cielo Por Tu Luz
― Cielo Por Tu Luz
“But the people who struggle against what we call totalitarian regimes cannot function with queries and doubts. They, too, need certainties and simple truths to make the multitudes understand, to provoke collective tears.”
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
― The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“A word we throw around like we can even grasp it, like forever is something the human mind can comprehend.”
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“One of the most powerful lessons silence teaches us is to ponder”
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