"Before we are forgotten, we will be turned……" — Milan Kundera
"Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion."
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381 Quotes by Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera has 381 quotes on this site.
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Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to…
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Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink…
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People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void…
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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
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There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.
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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
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War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they…
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There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the…
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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
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The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.
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We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our…
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The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.
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An almost forgotten means of economic self-reliance is the home production of food. We are too accustomed to going to…
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With time, many of the facts I learned were forgotten but I never lost the excitement of discovery.
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Experience is what you have after you've forgotten her name.
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
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Oh, I'll be forgotten too, don't worry.
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Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten.
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Actually oddly enough, I think my work, the activism, will be forgotten. And I hope it will. Because I hope…
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