“Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.”
Source: Immortality
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Milan Kundera 198
Czech author of Czech and French literature 1929–2023Related quotes

“It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.”
Source: It Came from Within!: The Shocking Truth of What Lurks in the Heart
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
Susan Schneider and Max Velmans (2008). "Introduction". In: Max Velmans, Susan Schneider. The Blackwell Companion to Consciousness. Wiley.
As quoted in The Social Dimensions Of Law And Justice In Contemporary India (1979) by V. R. Krishna Iyer
Context: It may be that we are puppets — puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. The fact that obedience is often a necessity in human society does not diminish our responsibility as citizens. Rather, it confers on us a special obligation to place in positions of authority those most likely to use it humanely. And people are inventive. The variety of political forms we have seen in history are only several of many possible political arrangements. Perhaps the next step is to invent and to explore political forms that will give conscience a better chance to resist errant authority.

2010s, Address to the United States Congress, Mercy Is 'What Pleases God Most

“We start growing whenever we become aware of our existence and surroundings.”
Bisy Backson.
The Tao of Pooh (1982)