More Quotes by Milan Kundera
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.
Beauty is a rebellion against time.
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.
a man possessed with peace is always smiling.
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.
Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
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 Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
