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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
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Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.
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In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos.
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The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
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A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.
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Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass!
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There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium.
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Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the tragic sort, but rather of the comic variety. At any rate that afforded me some comfort.
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Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.
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Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.
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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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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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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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...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.
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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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Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent.
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When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
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Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However contemptible the world may be, they still need it to be able to talk together.
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[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.
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But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?
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