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The source of anxiety lies in...

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.

Milan Kundera 457 quotes

For he was aware of the great...

For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.

Milan Kundera 457 quotes

Love is a desire for that los...

Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.

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Mankind's true moral test, its...

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

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The stupidity of people comes ...

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

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To be a writer does not mean t...

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.

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To sit with a dog on a hillsid...

To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

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You can understand nothing abo...

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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The novelist teaches the reade...

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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Dogs are our link to paradise....

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

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And there lies the horror: the...

And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.

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The longing for Paradise is ma...

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.

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We go through the present blin...

We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realize what we've been through and understand what it means.

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Sensuality is the total mobili...

Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

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...she merely wished to find a...

...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.

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Beauty has long since disappea...

Beauty has long since disappeared. It has slipped beneath the surface of the noise, the noise of words, sunk deep as Atlantis. The only thing left of it is the word, whose meaning loses clarity from year to year.

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The great European novel start...

The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes!

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Darling, my darling, don't thi...

Darling, my darling, don't think that I don't love you or that I didn't love you, but it's precisely because I love you that I couldn't have become what I am today if you were still here. It's impossible to have a child and despise the world as it is, because that's the world we've put the child into. The child makes us care about the world, think about it's future, willingly join in its racket and its turmoils, take its incurable stupidity seriously.

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Only a literary work that reve...

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

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As you live out your desolatio...

As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.

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