"Without the meditative background that is criticism, works……" — Milan Kundera
"Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten."
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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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The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
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Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of…
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Stardom isn't a profession, it's an accident.
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
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I had - after I sang the 'Star Spangled Banner' so badly, after my tragic singing accident, after that, you…
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Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.
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What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will…
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Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that…
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