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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can't go out anyway! What difference does it make whether they're covered with soil or stones?
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She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.
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The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.
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Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.
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The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
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I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
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He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
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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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Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have come together, like bashful lovers, and the music of one would have begun to intersect with the music of the other. But it was too late now.
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The important thing is to abide by the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.
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Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
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Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.
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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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Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.
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But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum of the utility of all people of all times. Which implies: The highest morality consists in being useless.
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Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent.
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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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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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Speak truth to power.
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Art arises from sources other than logic. (p.32)
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