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To laugh is to live profoundly.

Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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Novelist
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Brünn
Profoundly
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The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.
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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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[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.
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We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.
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God has been kind to dogs in no putting a sense of beauty into their heads.
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...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste.
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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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Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.
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Yes, if you're looking for infinity, just close your eyes!
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