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I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.

Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.
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When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
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[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job . . . into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen.
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He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
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But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not.
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Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.
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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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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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