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Milan Kundera Inspirational Quotes (216)

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[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.
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The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.
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Optimism is the opium of the people.
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When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.
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Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass!
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There is no perfection only life
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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
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The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
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Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.
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In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.
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Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something - love - from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.
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The best actors do not let the wheels show.
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No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise. The love between dog and man is idyllic. It knows no conflicts, no hair-raising scenes it knows no development.
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Facts mean little compared to attitudes. To contradict rumor or sentiment is as futile as arguing against a believer's faith in the Immaculate Conception. You have simply become a victim of faith, Comrade Assistant.
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Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
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On the surface, an intelligible lie underneath, the unintelligible truth.
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All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.
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For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought.
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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
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A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
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Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.
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The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
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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.
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Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled on the contrary in the form of a quiet nostalgia she remained constantly within me I longed for her as one longs for something definitively lost.
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