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More Quotes by Milan Kundera
In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
a man possessed with peace is always smiling.
The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Beauty is a rebellion against time.