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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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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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A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
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Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.
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... characters are not born like people, of woman they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.
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On the surface, an intelligible lie underneath, the unintelligible truth.
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When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
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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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Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.
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I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
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We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same we feel that Beethoven himself, gloomy and awe-inspiring, is playing the “Es muss sein!” to our own great love.
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what's the matter? he asked nothing what do you want me to do for you? i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty years older what she meant was: i want you to be weak. as weak as i am.
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I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them I have nothing in common with them.
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It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life -- and herein lies its secret -- takes place in the immediate proximity of that border, even in direct contact with it it is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch.
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The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
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Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.
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Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.
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As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.
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How goodness heightens beauty!
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This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite novelistic to you, and I am willing to agree, but only on condition that you refrain from reading such notions as fictive, fabricated, and untrue to life into the word novelistic. Because human lives are composed in precisely such a fas
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La memoria no guarda películas, guarda fotografías.
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