"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not…" — Milan Kundera

"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."

— Milan Kundera

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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…
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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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
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In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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