"The novel is not the author's confession; it……" — Milan Kundera

"The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become"

— Milan Kundera

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381 Quotes by Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera has 381 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

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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More Confession Quotes

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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of… — Hannah Arendt
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. — Saint Augustine
Acting is a form of confession. — Tallulah Bankhead
As we were baptized, so we profess our belief. As we profess our belief, so also we offer praise. As… — Saint Basil
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive. — Orlando Aloysius Battista
I hesitate to deposit money in a bank. I am afraid I shall never dare to take it out again.… — Jean Baudrillard
It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality. — Max Beerbohm
Confess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven; confess them to man and you will be laughed… — Josh Billings
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due… — William J. Brennan
A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. — Albert Camus
I will begin with this confession: whatever I have done in the course of my life, whether it be good… — Giacomo Casanova
To all my nonbelieving, sort-of-believing, and used-to-be-believing friends: I feel like I should begin with a confession. I am sorry… — Shane Claiborne

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