"loves are like empires: when the idea they……" — Milan Kundera
"loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away."
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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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To feed applied science by starving basic science is like economising on the foundations of a building so that it…
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It may be the way the cookie crumbles on Madison Avenue, but in Hong Kong its the way the egg…
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Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious…
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In our village, folks say God crumbles up the old moon into stars.
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Understand that relationships are more important than contracts. Business deals are relationships between people. The signed piece of paper is…
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In harmony with the Tao, the sky is clear and spacious, the earth is solid and full, all creature flourish…
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