Milan Kundera Quotes - Page 4

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

  Milan Kundera

  Choices, Unhappy, Desolation

  "Identity". Book by Milan Kundera, 1998.

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

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  Pain, Compassion, Imagination

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

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  Beautiful, Memories, Brain

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women?

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  Men, Desire, World

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• The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia.

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  Purpose, Dazzle, Unbearable

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• Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.

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  Memories, Children, Past

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• Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.

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  Flirting, Promise, Guarantees

  "Nesnesitelna lehkost byti (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

  Milan Kundera

  Writing

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• Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.

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  Goal, Suffering, Unbearable

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• a man possessed with peace is always smiling

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  Men, Always Smile, Possessed

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• You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.

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  Past, Thinking, Different

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• Totalitarianism is neither left nor right, and within its empire both will perish. I was never a believer, but after seeing Czech Catholics persecuted during the Stalinist terror, I felt the deepest solidarity with them. What separated us, the belief in God, was secondary to what united us. In Prague, they hanged the Socialists and the priests. Thus a fraternity of the hanged was born.

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  Catholic, Prague, Empires

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• Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.

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  Looks, Plunge, Young

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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 that does nothing worse than incite its fans to urinate in all innocence, to gain weight in all frankness?

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  Funny, Beer, Hypocrisy

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• Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.

  Milan Kundera

  Crazy, Love Is, Crazy Love

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• I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.

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  Hate, Common

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• Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

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  Art, Passion, Mean

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• Sleep in my arms. Like a baby bird. Like a broom among brooms... in a broom closet. Like a tiny parrot. Like a whistle. Like a little song. A song sung by a forest... within a forest... a thousand years ago.

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  Song, Baby, Sleep

  "Fictional character: Tomas". "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", www.imdb.com. February 5, 1988.

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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 of no interest to anyone.

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  People, Want, Void

  "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting". Book by Milan Kundera, 1980.

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• When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere.

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  Hard Times, Faces, Sincere

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• Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.

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  Love Is, Desire, Half

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• Speak truth to power.

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  Speak, Speak The Truth

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• The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self. In intense suffering the world disappears and each of us is alone with his self. Suffering is the university of ego-centrism.

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  Cat, Unique, Self

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• A constant interrogation.

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  Love, Constant, Interrogation

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• ...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.

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  Feelings, Way, Action

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