Milan Kundera
Quotations
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“The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.” -Milan Kundera
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“To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.” -Milan Kundera
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“Mankind’s true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.” -Milan Kundera
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“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” -Milan Kundera
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“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent.” -Milan Kundera
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“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.” -Milan Kundera
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“People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they’re going deaf, it has to be played louder still.” -Milan Kundera
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“Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.” -Milan Kundera
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“A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel’s only morality.” -Milan Kundera
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“The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.” -Milan Kundera
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“No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.” -Milan Kundera
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“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.” -Milan Kundera
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“Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.” -Milan Kundera
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“No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.” -Milan Kundera
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“Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.” -Milan Kundera
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“Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.” -Milan Kundera
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“The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.” -Milan Kundera
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“He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.” -Milan Kundera
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