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For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

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Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

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I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living.

Harvey Milk

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The Times of Harvey Milk. Directed by Rob Epstein, Pacific Arts/Black Sand Productions, 1984.

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Now, maybe there's a God above
As for me all I've ever learned from love
Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
But it's not a cry that you're hear tonight
It's not some pilgrim who claims to have seen the light
No, it's a cold and it's a very broken Hallelujah

Leonard Cohen

Hallelujah

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Cohen, Leonard. "Hallelujah." Various Positions. Columbia Records, 1984.

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I like the stink of the streets. It makes me feel good. And I like the smell of it, it opens up my lungs. And it gives me a hard-on.

Once Upon a Time in America

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Once Upon a Time in America [C'era una volta in America]. Directed by Sergio Leone, The Ladd Company/PSO International/Embassy International Pictures/, Rafran Cinematografica, 1984.

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I'll be back.

The Terminator

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The Terminator. Directed by James Cameron, Hemdale/Pacific Western Productions/Euro Film Funding/Cinema '84, 1984.

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Most paranoid delusions are intricate but this is brillant.

The Terminator

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The Terminator. Directed by James Cameron, Hemdale/Pacific Western Productions/Euro Film Funding/Cinema '84, 1984.

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I can't believe this. They fucking forgot my birthday.

Sixteen Candles

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Sixteen Candles. Directed by John Hughes, Universal Pictures/Channel Productions, 1984.

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A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

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Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

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You know, I believe we have two lives. The life we learn with and the life we live with after that.

The Natural

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The Natural. Directed by Barry Levinson, Delphi II Productions, 1984.

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Machines need love too!

The Terminator

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The Terminator. Directed by James Cameron, Hemdale/Pacific Western Productions/Euro Film Funding/Cinema '84, 1984.

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Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

Milan Kundera

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

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Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

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Best advice I ever got was an old friend mine, a black friend, who said you have to go the way your blood beats. If you don’t live the only life you have, you won’t live some other life, you won’t live any life at all.

James Baldwin

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Baldwin, James. Quoted in "Go the Way Your Blood Beats." Interviewed by Richard Goldstein. Village Voice, 26 June 1984.

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Baldwin, James. "Go the Way Your Blood Beats." James Baldwin: The Last Interview and Other Interviews. Melville House, 2014.

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All I can guarantee you is that as long as you are searching for happiness, you will remain unhappy.

U.G. Krishnamurti

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Krishnamurti, U. G. Mind is a Myth: Disquieting Conversations with the Man Called U. G. Dinesh, 1988.

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In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

Milan Kundera

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Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

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Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

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None among us is superman enough to escape kitsch completely. No matter how we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

Milan Kundera

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Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

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Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

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Never give up and good luck will find you.

The NeverEnding Story

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The NeverEnding Story. Directed by Wolfgang Petersen, Neue Constantin Film/Bavaria Film/Producers Sales Organization, 1984.

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We are paternalists when we make someone act in his own interests.

Derek Parfit

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Parfit, Derek. Reasons and Persons. Oxford University Press, 1984.

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That's why they call them crushes. If they were easy, they'd call 'em something else.

Sixteen Candles

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Sixteen Candles. Directed by John Hughes, Universal Pictures/Channel Productions, 1984.

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The body, she says, is subject to the forces of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

Saul Bellow

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Bellow, Saul. "Him with His Foot in His Mouth." Him with His Foot in His Mouth and Other Stories. Harper & Row, 1984.

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And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

Milan Kundera

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Kundera, Milan. L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être [The Unbearable Lightness of Being]. Gallimard, 1984.

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Kundera, Milan. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, translated by Michael Henry Heim. Harper Perennial, 2009.

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