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Milan Kundera Quotes
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You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself (Milan Kundera Quotes)
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel’s only morality (Milan Kundera Quotes)
A worker may be the hammer’s master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another (Milan Kundera Quotes)
No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition (Milan Kundera Quotes)
My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form (Milan Kundera Quotes)
When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can’t go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they’re covered with soil or stones? (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love (Milan Kundera Quotes)
God has been kind to dogs in no putting a sense of beauty into their heads (Milan Kundera Quotes)
I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way (Milan Kundera Quotes)
In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions (Milan Kundera Quotes)
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone (Milan Kundera Quotes)
No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad (Milan Kundera Quotes)
In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man’s body (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass! (Milan Kundera Quotes)
You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Today we’re all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great collective passion of our time (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However contemptible the world may be, they still need it to be able to talk together (Milan Kundera Quotes)
As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it (Milan Kundera Quotes)
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past (Milan Kundera Quotes)
The important thing is to abide by the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart (Milan Kundera Quotes)
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It’s not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone (Milan Kundera Quotes)
To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth (Milan Kundera Quotes)
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us (Milan Kundera Quotes)
Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you’ve brought breakfast in bed you’ll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal (Milan Kundera Quotes)