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Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: April 1
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There is no perfection only life
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A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
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As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.
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Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
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Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
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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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Optimism is the opium of the people.
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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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Which doesn't mean, of course, that I'd stopped loving her, that I'd forgotten her, or that her image had paled on the contrary in the form of a quiet nostalgia she remained constantly within me I longed for her as one longs for something definitively lost.
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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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I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
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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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No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
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For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.
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Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
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The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.
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People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.
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The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.
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I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
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How goodness heightens beauty!
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