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Slowness

Book by ميلان كونديرا · 13 quotes · اللذة, السياسة, Dance

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“‫السائدُ بوجهٍ عام أنّ مفهومَ مذهب اللّذة يعني نزوعًا لا أخلاقيًّا نحو حياة المتعة، إنْ لم نقُل الرذيلة. هذا، طبعًا، مجانبٌ للصواب. فأبيقور - أكبرُ منظّري اللّذة - فهِمَ الحياةَ السعيدةَ بارتيابٍ تامٍّ، إذ رأى أنّ مَن يشعُرُ باللّذة هو مَن لا يتألّم. الألم - إذًا - هو الفكرةُ الأساس لمبدأ اللّذة‬”

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“Then, back in our room, I turn on the television for a moment. There, children. The children are thin, exhausted, without the strength to wave away the flies walking about on their faces. Vera says to me: "Aren't there any old people dying in that country as well?" No, no, what was so interesting about that famine, what made it unique among the millions of famines that have occurred on this earth, was that it cut down only children. We never saw an adult suffering on the screen, even though we watched the news every day, precisely to confirm that unprecedented fact.”

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“pour occuper la scène il faut en repousser les autres. Ce qui suppose une technique de combat spéciale. le combat que mène le danseur, Pontevin l'appelle le judo moral ; le danseur jette le gant au monde entier : qui est capable de se montrer plus moral (plus courageux, plus honnête, plus sincère, plus disposé au sacrifice, plus véridique) que lui ? Et il manie toutes les prises qui lui permettent de mettre l'autre dans une situation moralement inférieure.”

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“What could I say? Maybe this: the man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present instant of his flight; he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future; he is wrenched from the continuity of time; he is outside time; in other words, he is in a state of ecstasy; in that state he is unaware of his age, his wife, his children, his worries, and so he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.”

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“كلُّ الساسةِ اليوم - حسب بونتوفان - راقصون بوجهٍ ما، وكلُّ الراقصين يتعاطون السياسة. مع ذلك، لا ينبغي الخلط بينهما. ما به يتميّز الراقص عن رجل السياسة أنّ الأوّل لا يطمحُ إلى السلطةِ وأنّما إلى المجد، لا يصبو إلى أن يفرض على العالَم هذا النظام الاجتماعي أو ذاك، بل أن يحتلَّ المسرح َكي يجعلَ أناهُ تتألّق”

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