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

The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.

We won't understand a thing about human life if we persist in avoiding the most obvious fact: that a reality no longer is what it was when it was; it cannot be reconstructed.

to love someone out of compassion means not really to love