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Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
Milan Kundera
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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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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 regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her.
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To die to decide to die that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent of a far larger portion of future? Certainly it does, but for a young person, the future is a remote, abstract, unreal thing he doesn't really believe in.
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The river flowed from century to century, and human affairs play themselves out on its banks. Play themselves out to be forgotten the next day, while the river flows on.
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Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor
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At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.
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we might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. he is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down.
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The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.
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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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No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
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On the surface, an intelligible lie underneath, the unintelligible truth.
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Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.
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Sad company is bad company.
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I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
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The Greek word for return is nostos. Algos means suffering. So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
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What is unique about the I hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual I is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered.
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Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.
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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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Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.
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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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