"And what can life be worth if the……" — Milan Kundera

"And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?"

— Milan Kundera

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381 Quotes by Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera has 381 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to…
Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink…
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void…
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they…
There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the…
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.
We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our…
The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

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More First Rehearsal Quotes

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James Ivory comes close to the actors for the first rehearsal. He more or less lets you direct yourself and… — Leslie Caron
An excess of development can undermine the most ephemeral but distinctive tool a writer possesses: authorial voice. A writer's voice… — David Wright
The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
An orchestra knows during the first two minutes of the first rehearsal whether or not they are going to enjoy… — Leonard Slatkin
There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything… — Milan Kundera
It occurred to me, then, how nearly real life resembles the first rehearsal of a play. We are all of… — Gary L. Blackwood
I truly thought I was going to be in pop music. And then I joined a choir to meet girls,… — Eric Whitacre
When Seymour saw me seated at the piano at that first rehearsal, he shouted: 'What's that kid doing here? Call… — Mary Lou Williams

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