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![[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job . . . into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen Picture Quote #1](https://img.picturequotes.com/3/1024/1023119/1023119.webp "[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job . . . into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen Picture Quote #1")
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The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes! (Milan Kundera Quotes)
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job . . . into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen. (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent, (Milan Kundera Quotes)
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Happiness is the longing for repetition (Milan Kundera Quotes)
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him (Milan Kundera Quotes)
How goodness heightens beauty! (Milan Kundera Quotes)
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness (Milan Kundera Quotes)
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality (Milan Kundera Quotes)
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? (Milan Kundera Quotes)
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Pain doesn’t listen to reason, it has it’s own reason, which is not reasonable (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten (Milan Kundera Quotes)
The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love (Milan Kundera Quotes)
On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth (Milan Kundera Quotes)
If I hadn’t met you, I’d certainly have fallen in love with him (Milan Kundera Quotes)
The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Yes, it’s crazy. Love is either crazy or it’s nothing at all (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Aren’t we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women? (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden (Milan Kundera Quotes)