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Milan Kundera Inspirational Quotes (216)

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Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.
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The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.
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Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.
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Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel it is its morality.
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Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom even in a game is a trap for the players.
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The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.
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A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
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...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media free, non-interpreted contact with its viewer (its reader, its listener)
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Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.
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What is unique about the I hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual I is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered.
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The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.
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Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.
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A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.
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When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?
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She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.
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The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.
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For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.
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The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.
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...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.
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We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realize what we've been through and understand what it means.
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The important thing is to abide by the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.
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In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
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Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
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As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.
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