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Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest.
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No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?
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The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.
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A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
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Leroy interrupted Chantal's fantasies: Freedom? As you live our your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom. You're free to melt your own individuality into the cauldron of the multitude either with a feeling of defeat or euphoria.
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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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In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
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Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying.
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...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste.
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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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Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.
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Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like a little song. A song sung by a forest... within a forest... a thousand years ago.
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Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.
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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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Remembering now all those farewells (fake farewells, worked-up farewells), Irena thinks: a person who messes up her goodbyes shouldn’t expect much from her re-unions.
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Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.
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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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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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Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.
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[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job . . . into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen.
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