"The novel is a territory where one does……" — Milan Kundera
"The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses."
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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 Assertions Quotes
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer…
— Winston Churchill
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When two texts, or two assertions, perhaps two ideas, are in contradiction, be ready to reconcile them rather than cancel…
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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If we are honest - and scientists have to be - we must admit that religion is a jumble of…
— Paul Dirac
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By our pontifical assertions, our superior impatience, and our casual brushing aside of their curiosity, we do not encourage their…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Sentimental assertions are always a form of detachment; they confront the acute, terrible awareness of individual pain, the sharp particularity…
— Mark Doty
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Ordinary people do not question the commonly accepted version of reality. They conform to the standard values of subduing enemies…
— Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
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Liminality may perhaps be regarded as the Nay to all positive structural assertions, but as in some sense the source…
— Unknown Author
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I never trust people's assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.
— Ann Radcliffe
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The partisan when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights of the question, but is anxious…
— Socrates
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From study of known normal brains we have learned that there is a certain range of variation. No two brains…
— Edward Anthony Spitzka
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The fate of the physiology of the brain is independent of the truth and falsity of my assertions relative to…
— Franz Joseph Gall
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All sweeping assertions are erroneous.
— Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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