Milan Kundera

To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#being #exist #extend #go #human

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#forgetting #man #memory #power #struggle

Optimism is the opium of the people. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#greater #justify #nothing #requires #rule

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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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. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#culture #madness #perishing #quantity #words

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

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