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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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Optimism is the opium of the people.
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I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.
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There is no perfection only life
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But if God is gone and man is no longer master, then who is master?
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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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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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Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.
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It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life -- and herein lies its secret -- takes place in the immediate proximity of that border, even in direct contact with it it is not miles away, but a fraction of an inch.
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Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. (p.148)
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Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.
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The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
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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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Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.
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Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.
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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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But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.
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Art arises from sources other than logic. (p.32)
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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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The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.
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...[P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all... (p.24)
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