"The light that radiates from the great novels……" — Milan Kundera
"The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish."
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381 Quotes by Milan Kundera
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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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With an apple I will astonish Paris.
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The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got…
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What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish, disturb, seduce, convince.
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Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing…
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Everybody is I, you all know you are you. And wheresoever's beings exist throughout all galaxies it doesn't any difference.…
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