Milan Kundera | wisdom
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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Milan Kundera | wisdom
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 | respect
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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Milan Kundera | power
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
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Milan Kundera | peace
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 | music
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 | love
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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