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Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera
Czechoslovakian Writer
Born: Apr 1, 1929
Actor Existence How Myself Nothing People
Related authors: Ayn Rand Dr. Seuss H. L. Mencken Napoleon Hill Niccolo Machiavelli Thomas Mann Thomas Paine Voltaire
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. Milan Kundera
Jealousy Pet Evil Paradise Our Know Discontent Dogs Link
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. Milan Kundera
Peace Dog Glorious Sit Nothing Back Boring Eden Doing Where Afternoon
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. Milan Kundera
Man Struggle Memory Power Forgetting Against
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. Milan Kundera
Happiness Laughter Temple Like Sound Dome
How goodness heightens beauty! Milan Kundera
Goodness Beauty How Heightens
Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other. Milan Kundera
Dance Other Leads Like Always
No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition. Milan Kundera
Matter Kitsch Part How How Much Integral Integral Part Condition Scorn Human Human Condition Much
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. Milan Kundera
Me People Feelings Nothing See Brotherly More Another Than Common Repugnant Grounded
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. Milan Kundera
Compassion Own Nothing Pain Imagination Hundred Prolonged Someone Weighs Feels Than Intensified Heavier Heavy Even
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. Milan Kundera
Me Pants Would Dreamed About Miraculous Write Adult Invisible Like Make Became Boy Began Short Wanted Little Then Successful Now
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. Milan Kundera
Time Great Man Light Old Will Astonish Dim Never Thus However Perpetually Discoveries Existence Cease May Human Forgotten Being Human Existence Novelists Novels
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. Milan Kundera
Life Myself Soul Degree My Life Nothing States My Soul Almost Am Discreet Pathological Against Incapable Speaking
Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. Milan Kundera
News Smoking Listening Cigarette Broadcast Crushing Like Ashtray Butt
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. Milan Kundera
Art You Value Nothing Imagination About Particularly Understand Itself Modern Modern Art
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. Milan Kundera
Attitude Wisdom World Tolerance Comprehend Dead Reader Built Question Teaches Certainties Novel Novelist
There are no small parts. Only small actors. Milan Kundera
Only Small Parts Actor
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. Milan Kundera
Work Fragment Unknown Only Reveals Existence Human Being Literary Literary Work Human Existence Reason
The best actors do not let the wheels show. Milan Kundera
Best Wheels Show Actor
I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be. Milan Kundera
Myself Better Think Better Actor Allowed Am Than Much Actor
People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still. Milan Kundera
Music People Deaf Because Still Louder Going Played
Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries. Milan Kundera
Consider Critic Discoverer Discoveries Us Therefore Let Us
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. Milan Kundera
Knowledge Unknown Immoral Morality Only Segment Uncover Does Existence Hitherto Novel
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? Milan Kundera
Situation Given He His Existence Question Historic Laboratory Human Which Human Existence Novelist Basic
A worker may be the hammer's 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
Master Tool Approximate Exactly Prevails Only Idea Knows How Still Hammer Handled May While Worker Meant Meant To Be User
Broch is an inspiration to us, not only because of what he accomplished, but also because of all that he aimed at and could not attain. Milan Kundera
Only Inspiration Could Attain He Also Because Accomplished Us
Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations. Milan Kundera
Change Every Scene New Explanations Requires Descriptions
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