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Great Quotes by Milan Kundera
- Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great…
- 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.
- All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
- The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists'…
- Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as they were by…
- 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…
- [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…
- When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has…
- Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.
- A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a legend of itself,…
- It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which…
- I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable…
- 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.…
- A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too…
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