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Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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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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For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought.
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The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
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a man possessed with peace is always smiling
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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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The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
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I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
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Happiness is the longing for repetition.
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she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.
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Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable
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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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Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.
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Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.
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The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.
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The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.
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Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.
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When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.
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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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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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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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