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You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
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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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Mankind's real moral test, a test so radical and so deep that it escapes our gaze, is probably the one of its relations with those that are the most at its mercy the Animals.
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In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
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Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.
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The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
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Until that time, her betrayals had filled her with excitement and joy, because they opened up new paths to new adventures of betrayal. But what if the paths came to an end? One could betray one's parents, husband, country, love, but when parents, husband, country, and love were gone - what was left to betray?
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Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
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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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what's the matter? he asked nothing what do you want me to do for you? i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty years older what she meant was: i want you to be weak. as weak as i am.
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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 sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
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Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.
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But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?
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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
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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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Those boobs of yours are ubiquitous - like God!
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The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question.
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Yes, the essence of every love is a child, and it makes no difference at all whether it has ever actually been conceived or born. In the algebra of love a child is the symbol of the magical sum of two beings.
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