Milan Kundera | knowledge
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel’s only morality.
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Milan Kundera | imagination
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 | imagination
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 | great
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.
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Milan Kundera | freedom
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 | fear
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.
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Milan Kundera | change
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.
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