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Milan Kundera Quotes
«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.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
astonish, dim, discoveries, human existence, Novelists, novels, perpetually, radiated, radiates, radiating
«The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
accidental, features, reflects, serial, specimen, specimens, unrepeatable
«A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
bearer, bearers, belonging, creating, gesture, gestures, incarnations, instruments, on the contrary, regarded, the Incarnation
«Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
discoverer, discoverers, discoveries, The Critic
«True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
come to the fore, fore, purity, recipient, recipients
«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.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
all the way, exaggeration, go together, mystic, mysticism, ridicule
«High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
Beethoven, characterizes, Considering, European, napoleon, obsession, perversion, perversions, predecessor, relay, relayed, relay race, Robespierre, runner, runners, runner up, stadium, stadiums, successor, surpassed, surpasses, The Runner, The Sequence
«Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
nudity
| Keywords:
nudity, shroud, shrouded, shrouds, Shroud of
«O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you?ve brought breakfast in bed you?ll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Betrayal,
Love
| Keywords:
accused, betrayal, betrayals