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Milan Kundera
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"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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Milan Kundera
Topic(s):
Wisdom
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting."
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Milan Kundera
Topic(s):
Power
"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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Milan Kundera
Topic(s):
Peace
"People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they’re going deaf, it has to be played louder still."
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Milan Kundera
Topic(s):
Music
"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."
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Milan Kundera
Topic(s):
Love
"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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Milan Kundera
Topic(s):
Imagination
"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent."
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Milan Kundera
Topic(s):
Jealousy
"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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Milan Kundera
Topic(s):
Imagination
"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."
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Milan Kundera
Topic(s):
Happiness
"Happiness is the longing for repetition."
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Milan Kundera
Topic(s):
Happiness
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