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Milan Kundera Inspirational Quotes (216)

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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
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The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.
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I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.
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Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.
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Speak truth to power.
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It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.
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Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.
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I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.
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In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos.
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The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
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Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.
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Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest.
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loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.
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And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
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There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.
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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.
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The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.
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Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.
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Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.
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The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next day, while the river flows on.
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But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?
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A man able to think isn't defeated - even when he is defeated.
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We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice - and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.
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The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.
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