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People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.


Milan Kundera

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-Tenten
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GEORGE HALAS WHEN YOU SNEAK IN LATE AT NIGHT
NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU TIP TOE THE
THE FLOOR CREAKS LOUDER...
QWANA REYNOLDS-FRASIER WHEN YOU SNEAK IN LATE AT NIGHT
AND NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU TIP TOE THE
THE FOOT CREAKS LOU...
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IRFA RAHAT Why fools are endowed by nature with voices so much louder than sensible people possess is a mystery...
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HERTZLER Our children are watching us live, and what we are shouts louder than anything we can say.
WILFERD A. PETERSON The silence of one man can be louder than the screaming of 10 boys!
UNKNOWN She knows I'm her biggest fan, I cheer for her louder than anybody.
NICK LACHEY My Silence is not a result of timidness but that my mind voices louder then my mouth.
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SEAN BERDY It's a sad house where the hen crows louder than the cock.
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MILAN KUNDERA Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and ...
MILAN KUNDERA When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of he...
MILAN KUNDERA Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional ...
MILAN KUNDERA Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she...
MILAN KUNDERA The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of f...
MILAN KUNDERA In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone w...
MILAN KUNDERA A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with clean underwear -instead of...
MILAN KUNDERA I had all kinds of answers ready for the commissions that called me in and asked me what had made me...
MILAN KUNDERA Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll...
MILAN KUNDERA I know, brother, that you are a straightforward man, and that you pride yourself on it. But put one ...
MILAN KUNDERA Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.
MILAN KUNDERA Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by t...
MILAN KUNDERA Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists
MILAN KUNDERA Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.
MILAN KUNDERA To laugh is to live profoundly.
MILAN KUNDERA The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting
MILAN KUNDERA The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
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MILAN KUNDERA There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age ...
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