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  1. Milan Kundera _ The Unbearable Lightness of

    Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ... Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.
    book-quotemeaningfatedeterminism

  2. Milan Kundera _ The Joke

    How would I explain to him that I couldn't make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal scales would suddenly shoot upward? How would I explain that my hatred of him counterbalanced the weight of evil that had fallen on my youth? How would I explain that he embodied all the evils in my life? How would I explain to him that I needed to hate him?
    book-quotepeaceevilforgiveness

  3. Milan Kundera _ The Festival of Insignificance

    The children laughing without knowing why - isn't that beautiful?
    book-quotemeaning

  4. Milan Kundera _ The Joke

    Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the strange conviction, for example, that everything in life that happens to me also has a sense, that it means something, that life speaks to us about itself through its story, that it gradually reveals a secret, that it takes the form of a rebus whose message must be deciphered, that the stories we live compromise the mythology of our lives and in that mythology lies the key to truth and mystery. Is it an illusion? Possibly, even probably, but I can't rid myself of the need continually to decipher my own life.
    book-quotemeaningstories

  5. Jeanette Winterson _ The Powerbook

    Perhaps this is how it is--life flowing smoothly over memory and history, the past returning or not, depending on the tide. History is a collection of found objects washed up through time. Goods, ideas, personalities, surface towards us, then sink away. Some we hook out, others we ignore, and as the pattern changes, so does the meaning. We cannot rely on the facts. Time, which returns everything, changes everything."
    book-quotelifehistorytime

  6. Denis Johnson _ The Name of the World

    When I reached the street I didn't know whether to go right or left. Soon I'd have to start acting like a person who cared about what happened to him.
    book-quotelifemeaningleft

  7. Jonathan Safran Foer _ Here I Am

    Before they had kids, if asked to conjure images of parenthood they would have said things like "Reading in bed," and "Giving a bath," and "Running while holding the seat of a bicycle." Parenthood contains such moments of warmth and intimacy, but isn't them. It's cleaning up. The great bulk of family life involves no exchange of love, and no meaning, only fulfillment. Not the fulfillment of feeling fulfilled, but of fulfilling that which now falls to you.
    book-quotemeaningparenthood

  8. Italo Calvino _ The Uses of Literature

    A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."
    book-quotereadingmeaningliterature

  9. Franny Billingsley _ Chime

    Meaning. If you're going to die, you want to find meaning in life. You want to connect the dots.
    book-quotelifedeathmeaning

  10. Margaret Atwood _ The Blind Assassin

    Where was the threshold, between the inner world and the outer one? We each move unthinkingly through this gateway every day, we use the passwords of grammar----paying for the privilege of sanity with common coin, with meanings we've agreed on.
    book-quotemeaningsanity

  11. Margaret Atwood _ Oryx and Crake

    When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning-human meaning, that is-is defined by them. You have to admit that.
    book-quotemeaning

  12. Donna Tartt _ The Goldfinch

    You could study the connections for years and never work it out-it was all about things coming together,things falling apart,time warp, my mother standing out in front of the museum when time flickered and the light went funny, uncertainties hovering on the edge of a vast brightness. the stray chance that might, or might not, change everything."
    book-quotelifemeaningfate
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