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Milan Kundera Facts
Milan Kundera Is Born On April 1, 1929
Milan Kundera Is Born In Brno, Czech Republic
Milan Kundera Nationality Is Czech Or Czechoslovakian
Milan Kundera Zodiac Sign Is Aries
Milan Kundera Zodiac Symbol Is Ram
Milan Kundera Chinese Zodiac Element Is Yin Earth
Milan Kundera Chinese Zodiac Animal Is Snake
Milan Kundera Occupation Is Writer
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Milan Kundera Quotes
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novels only morality. - Milan Kundera Quotes
A worker may be the hammers master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. - Milan Kundera Quotes
All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. - Milan Kundera Quotes
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. - Milan Kundera Quotes
Anyone whose goal is something higher must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves. - Milan Kundera Quotes
Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. - Milan Kundera Quotes
Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation. - Milan Kundera Quotes
Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other. - Milan Kundera Quotes
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? - Milan Kundera Quotes
Happiness is the longing for repetition. - Milan Kundera Quotes
Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. - Milan Kundera Quotes
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him. - Milan Kundera Quotes
How goodness heightens beauty! - Milan Kundera Quotes
I find myself fascinating. - Milan Kundera Quotes
I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be. - Milan Kundera Quotes
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries. - Milan Kundera Quotes
Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. - Milan Kundera Quotes
Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves. - Milan Kundera Quotes
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. - Milan Kundera Quotes
Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. - Milan Kundera Quotes
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. - Milan Kundera Quotes
No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition. - Milan Kundera Quotes
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. - Milan Kundera Quotes
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought. - Milan Kundera Quotes
Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud. - Milan Kundera Quotes
Optimism is the opium of the people. - Milan Kundera Quotes
People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because theyre going deaf, it has to be played louder still. - Milan Kundera Quotes
Solitude: sweet absence of faces. - Milan Kundera Quotes
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone. - Milan Kundera Quotes
The best actors do not let the wheels show. - Milan Kundera Quotes
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