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The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

― Milan Kundera

Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas.

― Milan Kundera

You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

― Milan Kundera

a man possessed with peace is always smiling.

― Milan Kundera

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

― Milan Kundera

Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.

― Milan Kundera

Finding Yourself

The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

― Milan Kundera

Beauty is a rebellion against time.

― Milan Kundera

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

― Milan Kundera

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

― Milan Kundera

In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.

― Milan Kundera

Unbearable Lightness Of Being

It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

― John Steinbeck

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

― John Steinbeck

The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.

― John Steinbeck

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

― John Steinbeck

To be alive at all is to have scars.

― John Steinbeck

I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.

― John Steinbeck

Dissatisfaction

The human is the only guilty animal.

― John Steinbeck

When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

― John Steinbeck

One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.

― John Steinbeck

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