More Quotes by Milan Kundera
There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.
You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.
The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.
a man possessed with peace is always smiling.
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
