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title: "33 Memory Quotes By Milan Kundera"
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> [There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/there-is-a-secret-bond-between-slowness-and-memory-between-speed-and-2/)

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> [Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/man-reckons-with-immortality-and-forgets-to-reckon-with-death/)

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> [“The stronger their nostalgia, the emptier of recollections it becomes.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/the-stronger-their-nostalgia-the-emptier-of-recollections-it-becomes/)

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> [“I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/i-understood-that-there-was-no-escaping-the-memories-that-i-was-2/)

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> [ \[W\]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/w-e-must-never-allow-the-future-to-collapse-under-the-burden-of-memory/)

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> [The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/the-struggle-of-man-against-power-is-the-struggle-of-memory-against-2/)

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> [Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/memory-does-not-make-films-it-makes-photographs/)

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> [“Even painful memories are ties that bind.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/even-painful-memories-are-ties-that-bind/)

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> [“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/the-brain-appears-to-possess-a-special-area-which-we-might-call-4/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/the-degree-of-slowness-is-directionally-proportional-to-the-intensity/)

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> [I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/i-understood-that-there-was-no-escaping-the-memories-that-i-was/)

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> [The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/the-first-step-in-liquidating-a-people-is-to-erase-its-memory-destroy/)

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> [“That’s another enigma about memory, more basic than all the rest: do recollections have some measurable temporal volume? do they unfold over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/that-s-another-enigma-about-memory-more-basic-than-all-the-rest-do/)

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> [To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/to-ensure-that-the-self-doesn-t-shrink-to-see-that-it-holds-on-to-its/)

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> [The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/the-brain-appears-to-possess-a-special-area-which-we-might-call-3/)

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> [I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/i-remember-that-the-day-i-finished-the-angels-part-three-of-the-book/)

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> [Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/such-are-the-splendors-and-miseries-of-memory-it-is-proud-of-its/)

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> [“He knew very well that his memory detested him, that it did nothing but slander him; therefore he tried not to believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/he-knew-very-well-that-his-memory-detested-him-that-it-did-nothing/)

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> [“(existential mathematics...) the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/existential-mathematics-the-degree-of-slowness-is-directly/)

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> [Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/children-never-look-back-and-this-meant-that-we-must-never-allow-the/)

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> [Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/remembering-our-past-carrying-it-around-with-us-always-may-be-the/)

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> [“The bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Allende drowned out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/the-bloody-massacre-in-bangladesh-quickly-covered-over-the-memory-of/)

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> [“Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/today-history-is-no-more-than-a-thin-thread-of-the-remembered/)

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> [The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/the-first-step-in-liquidating-a-people-is-to-erase-its-memory-destroy-2/)

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> [“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting. A man is walking down the street. At a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/there-is-a-secret-bond-between-slowness-and-memory-between-speed-and/)

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> [“In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/in-times-when-history-still-moved-slowly-events-were-few-and-far-2/)

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> [“Friendship is indispensable to man for the proper function of his memory. Remembering our past, carrying it with us always, may be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/friendship-is-indispensable-to-man-for-the-proper-function-of-his/)

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> [“When I described Madame de T's night, I recalled the well-known equation from one of the first chapters of the textbook of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/when-i-described-madame-de-t-s-night-i-recalled-the-well-known/)

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> [“I imagine the feelings of two people meeting again after many years. In the past they spent some time together, and therefore…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/i-imagine-the-feelings-of-two-people-meeting-again-after-many-years/)

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> [“We will never cease our critique of those persons who distort the past, rewrite it, falsify it, who exaggerate the importance of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/we-will-never-cease-our-critique-of-those-persons-who-distort-the/)

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> [“Rubens discovered a peculiar thing: memory does not make films, it makes photographs. What he recalled from any of the women were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/rubens-discovered-a-peculiar-thing-memory-does-not-make-films-it/)

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> [“Memory cannot be understood, either, without a mathematical approach. The fundamental given is the ratio between the amount of time in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/memory-cannot-be-understood-either-without-a-mathematical-approach/)

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> [“The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/the-brain-appears-to-possess-a-special-area-which-we-might-call/)

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## More by Milan Kundera

> [“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/the-future-is-only-an-indifferent-void-no-one-cares-about-but-the/)

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> [“From that time on they both looked forward to sleeping together. I might even say that the goal of their lovemaking was not so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/from-that-time-on-they-both-looked-forward-to-sleeping-together-i/)

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> [“Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/beauty-in-the-european-sense-has-always-had-a-premeditated-quality-to/)

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> [The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/the-beauty-of-new-york-is-unintentional-it-arose-independent-of-human/)

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> [Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/children-never-look-back-and-this-meant-that-we-must-never-allow-the/)

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> [“Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/our-lives-may-be-separate-but-they-run-in-the-same-direction-like/)

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> [“Having a child is to show an absolute accord with mankind. If I have a child, it's as though I'm saying: I was born…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/having-a-child-is-to-show-an-absolute-accord-with-mankind-if-i-have-a/)

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> [Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end." Love is a battle?" said Franz.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/love-is-a-battle-said-marie-claude-still-smiling-and-i-plan-to-go-on/)

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> [“He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/he-remained-annoyed-with-himself-until-he-realized-that-not-knowing/)

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> [“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/whenever-i-think-about-ancient-cultures-nostalgia-seizes-me-perhaps/)

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> [When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/when-we-ignore-the-body-we-are-more-easily-victimized-by-it/)

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> [“Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/do-stories-apart-from-happening-being-have-something-to-say-for-all/)

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> [“Os extremos delimitam a fronteira para além da qual a vida termina, e a paixão pelo extremismo, tanto em arte como em política, é…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/os-extremos-delimitam-a-fronteira-para-al-m-da-qual-a-vida-termina-e/)

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> [The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/the-characters-in-my-novels-are-my-own-unrealized-possibilities-that/)

[Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/)

> [Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/milan-kundera/anyone-whose-goal-is-something-higher-must-expect-someday-to-suffer/)

[Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/milan-kundera/)

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                        "text": "Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To ensure that the self doesn’t shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends. They are our mirror; our memory; we ask nothing of them but that they polish the mirror from time to time so we can look at ourselves in it.",
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                        "text": "“The bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Allende drowned out the groans of Bangladesh, the war in the Sinai Desert made people forget Allende, the Cambodian massacre made people forget Sinai, and so on and so forth until ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten.”",
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                        "text": "“Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves on, and an epoch of millennia will come which the inextensible memory of the individual will be unable to encompass; whole centuries and millennia will therefore fall away, centuries of paintings and music, centuries of discoveries, of battles, of books, and this will be dire, because man will lose the notion of his self, and his history, unfathomable, unencompassable, will shrivel into a few schematic signs destitute of all sense.”",
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                        "text": "The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.",
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                        "text": "“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting. A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, he slows down. Meanwhile, a person who wants to forget a disagreeable incident he has just lived through starts unconsciously to speed up his pace, as if he were trying to distance himself from a thing still too close to him in time. In existential mathematics that experience takes the form of two basic equations: The degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.”",
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                        "text": "“In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly accepted BACKDROP for thrilling scenes of adventure in private life. Nowadays, history moves at a brisk clip. A historical event, though soon forgotten, sparkles the morning after with the dew of novelty. No longer a backdrop, it is now the ADVENTURE itself, an adventure enacted before the backdrop of the commonly accepted banality of private life. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting”",
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                        "text": "“Friendship is indispensable to man for the proper function of his memory. Remembering our past, carrying it with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends. They are our mirror; our memory; we ask nothing of them but that they polish the mirror from time to time so we can look at ourselves in it.”",
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                        "text": "“When I described Madame de T's night, I recalled the well-known equation from one of the first chapters of the textbook of existential mathematics: the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting. From that equation we can deduce various corrollaries, for instance this one: our period is given over to the demon of speed, and that is the reason it so easily forgets its own self. Now I would reverse that statement and say: our period is obsessed by the desire to forget, and it is to fulfill that desire that it gives over to the demon of speed; it picks up the pace to show us that it no longer wishes to be remembered; that it is tired of itself; sick of itself; that it wants to blow out the tiny trembling flame of memory.”",
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                        "text": "“I imagine the feelings of two people meeting again after many years. In the past they spent some time together, and therefore they think they are linked by the same experience, the same recollections. The same recollections? That's where the misunderstanding starts: they don't have the same recollections; each of them retains two or three small scenes from the past, but each has his own; their recollections are not similar; they don't intersect; and even in terms of quantity they are not comparable: one person remembers the other more than he is remembered; first because memory capacity varies among individuals (an explanation that each of them would at least find acceptable), but also (and this is more painful to admit) because they don't hold the same importance for each other. When Irena saw Josef at the airport, she remembered every detail of their long-ago adventure; Josef remembered nothing. From the very first moment their encounter was based on an unjust and revolting inequality.”",
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                        "text": "“We will never cease our critique of those persons who distort the past, rewrite it, falsify it, who exaggerate the importance of one event and fail to mention some other; such a critique is proper (it cannot fail to be), but it doesn't count for much unless a more basic critique precedes it: a critique of human memory as such. For after all, what can memory actually do, the poor thing? It is only capable of retaining a paltry little scrap of the past, and no one knows why just this scrap and not some other one, since in each of us the choice occurs mysteriously, outside our will or our interests. We won't understand a thing about human life if we persist in avoiding the most obvious fact: that a reality no longer is what it was when it was; it cannot be reconstructed. Even the most voluminous archives cannot help.”",
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