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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.
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The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic.
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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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But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces. (p.33)
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Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.
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No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?
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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.
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Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does nothing worse than incite its fans to urinate in all innocence, to gain weight in all frankness?
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...[P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all... (p.24)
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But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science , instantly fades away.
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Sad company is bad company.
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Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.
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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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Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent.
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Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.
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The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said? How can anyone state categorically that a thought he once had is no longer valid? In modern times an idea can be refuted, yes, but not retracted.
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Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.
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The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
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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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