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The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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Brünn
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Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
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it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life a dimension of beauty.
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On the surface, an intelligible lie underneath, the unintelligible truth.
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Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.
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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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For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words.
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The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.
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The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought and marveled that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul.
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The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
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