"The difference between the university graduate and the……" — Milan Kundera
"The difference between the university graduate and the autodidact lies not so much in the extent of knowledge as in the extent of vitality and self-confidence."
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381 Quotes by Milan Kundera
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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…
- 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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