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More Quotes by Milan Kundera
You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
Beauty is a rebellion against time.
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 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.
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 is responsible for his ignorance.
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.
