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Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.

Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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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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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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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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Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.
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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
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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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We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under . . . The fourth category, the rarest, is the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.
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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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In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.
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La memoria no guarda películas, guarda fotografías.
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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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Those boobs of yours are ubiquitous - like God!
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Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.
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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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In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
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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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Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.
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For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants, while there is still time, to turn himself into a universe of words.
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Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.
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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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