More Quotes by Milan Kundera
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.
Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
a man possessed with peace is always smiling.
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
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. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
