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More Quotes by Milan Kundera
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
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.
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.
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.
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
a man possessed with peace is always smiling.
