"Disgust at having to talk about oneself is……" — Milan Kundera
"Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent,"
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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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More Disgust Quotes
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I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how…
— Charles Baudelaire
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All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
— Walter Benjamin
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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When I contemplate the natural dignity of man; when I feel (for Nature has not been kind enough to me…
— Thomas Paine
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Achievement; the death of endeavor and the birth of disgust.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change.
— Jim Rohn
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While the behavior of the Russian government, Putin and Putin punks are abhorrent, nothing will be changed by boycotting the…
— David Mixner
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OK, I know this is going to disgust you, Michael, but a lot of people are in this business to…
— Sydney Pollack
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There are people who in spite of their merit disgust us and others who please us in spite of their…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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I think there will come a time when civilized people will look back in horror on our generation and the…
— Dennis Weaver
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