"There is no such thing as happiness, only……" — Milan Kundera
"There is no such thing as happiness, only lesser shades of melancholy."
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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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Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be…
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Happiness depends upon ourselves.
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He who hath many friends hath none.
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What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.
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Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or…
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Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.
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Friendship is essentially a partnership.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of…
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It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until…
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In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice.
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