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.
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.
Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
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.
You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.
