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More Quotes by Milan Kundera
Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
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.
Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.
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.
Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
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.
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
