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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.
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Cemeteries in Bohemia are like gardens. The graves are covered with grass and colourful flowers. Modest tombstones are lost in the greenery. When the sun goes down, the cemetery sparkles with tiny candles... no matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemetery. Even in wartime, even in Hitler's time, even in Stalin's time.
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Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.
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Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
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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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It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.
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I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
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[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.
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In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
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Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled on the contrary in the form of a quiet nostalgia she remained constantly within me I longed for her as one longs for something definitively lost.
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The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters.
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The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.
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she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.
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People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.
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Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.
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Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel it is its morality.
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...[P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all... (p.24)
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The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
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Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
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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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