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“... everyone knew that all islands were worlds unto themselves, that to come to an island was to come to another world.”

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Guy Gavriel Kay

Guy Gavriel Kay is a renowned Canadian fantasy author, born on November 7, 1954. His works are celebrated for their rich imagination and profound cultural depth, enjoying great popularity among readers. more

“Our contemporary Western society, in spite of its material, intellectual and political progress, is increasingly less conducive to mental health, and tends to undermine the inner security, happiness, reason and the capacity for love in the individual; it tends to turn him into an automaton who pays for his human failure with increasing mental sickness, and with despair hidden under a frantic drive for work and so called pleasure.”

Humans Reason Political Turns Individual Pleasure Pay Progress Security Materials Despair Intellectual Capacity Mental Health Western Contemporary Spite Sickness Frantic Western Society

Author:Erich Fromm

“A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations”

Persons Use Individual Creation Expression Creating Capable Originals Instruments Individuality Contrary Belonging Gestures Incarnation

Author:Milan Kundera

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and make it the object of our game; to turn it into a toy”

Ifs World Important Whole Turns Choices Games Accepting Objects Laughter Importance Midst Toys Echoes

Author:Milan Kundera

“The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen”

Humans Soul Self Character Faces Numbers Combination Features Serials Human Faces

Author:Milan Kundera

“How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more.”

Ifs Feels Persons Suffering Fronts Absence Nostalgia Beloved Glimpse

Author:Milan Kundera

“Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable”

Reason Pain Reasonable

Author:Milan Kundera

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