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Modern stupidity means not ig...

Modern stupidity means not ignorance but the nonthought of received ideas

Milan Kundera 457 quotes

Every love relationship rests...

Every love relationship rests on an unwritten agreement unthinkingly concluded by the lovers in the first weeks of their love. They are still in a kind of dream but at the same time, without knowing it, are drawing up, like uncompromising lawyers, the detailed clauses of their contract. O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

Milan Kundera 457 quotes

Just imagine living in a worl...

Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you. And then, when you reached forty, someone put a mirror before you for the first time in your life. Imagine your fright! You'd see the face of a stranger. And you'd know quite clearly what you are unable to grasp: your face is not you.

Milan Kundera 457 quotes

All previous crimes of the Ru...

All previous crimes of the Russian empire had been committed under the cover of a discreet shadow. The deportation of a million Lithuanians, the murder of hundreds of thousands of Poles, the liquidation of the Crimean Tatars remain in our memory, but no photographic documentation exists; sooner or later they will therefore be proclaimed as fabrications.

Milan Kundera 457 quotes

A novel that does not uncover...

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.

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When I was a little boy in sh...

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.

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Optimism is the opium of the ...

Optimism is the opium of the people.

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Culture is perishing in overp...

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.

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Nudity is the uniform of the ...

Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.

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Only a literary work that rev...

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.

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I think I am a much better ac...

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

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He took over anger to intimid...

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.

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The novelist teaches the read...

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

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There is nothing heavier than...

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.

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I am incapable of speaking of...

I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that.

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Let us consider the critic, t...

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

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No act is of itself either go...

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

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You can understand nothing ab...

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

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Nothing is more repugnant to ...

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.

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In order to make the novel in...

In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length.

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