Milan Kundera's Quotes

Milan Kundera's Quotes 21

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The...

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth it means to discover a truth.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

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To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden...

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder but because...

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say love...

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A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is...

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

You can understand nothing about art particularly modern art if you do not...

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so...

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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

True human goodness in all its purity and freedom can come to the fore only...

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he...

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or...

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Without realizing it the individual composes his life according to the laws...

How goodness heightens beauty!

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There...

Mankind's true moral test its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried...

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates and in time anger took over him.