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More Quotes by Milan Kundera
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.
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.
a man possessed with peace is always smiling.
In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.