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Sad company is bad company.

Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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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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Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country where he has his family, colleagues, and friends, and where he can easily say what he has to say in a language he has known from childhood.
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The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
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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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I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.
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Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.
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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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Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.
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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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Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
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Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.
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Optimism is the opium of the people.
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To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.
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Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
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Those boobs of yours are ubiquitous - like God!
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The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.
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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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To laugh is to live profoundly.
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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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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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