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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.
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
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.
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.
a man possessed with peace is always smiling.
You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
