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More Quotes by Milan Kundera
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
a man possessed with peace is always smiling.
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.
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
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.
Beauty is a rebellion against time.
