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Milan Kundera Quotes
«We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
acquired, ancestor, brilliant, distant, exalted, fidelities, fidelity, in a moment, merge, merging, proud of, ridiculously
«We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always a sketch. No sketch is not quite the right word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch of nothing, an outline with no picture.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
actor, groundwork, outline, outlines, Outlining, rehearsal, rehearsals, sketch, sketched, sketches, warning
«He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Anger
| Keywords:
intimidate, intimidates, intimidating, subordinated, subordinates, subordinating
«How goodness heightens beauty!»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Goodness
| Keywords:
heighten, heightening, heightens
«Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
baseness, brotherly, common ground, grounded, repugnant
«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.»
«A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects. A road is a tribute to space. Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop. A route is the triumphant devaluation of space, which thanks to it has been reduced to a mere obstacle to human movement and a waste of time.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
connects, derives, devaluation, differs, intended, invites, obstacle, points, reduced, route, solely, stretch, tribute, triumphant, vehicles, waste of time
«A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
hitherto, immoral, novel, segment, segments, the novel, uncover, uncovering, uncovers