Milan Kundera

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#disposition #end #human #intelligible #matter

Happiness is the longing for repetition. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#longing #repetition

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? ↗

— Milan Kundera

#existence #explores #given #his #historic

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#art #imagination #itself #modern #modern art

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#binding #hate #our #tightly #too

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#discontent #dogs #evil #jealousy #know

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#existence #hitherto #immoral #knowledge #morality

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. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#even #feels #heavier #heavy #hundred

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#functions #innovation #marketing #only #two

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#great #novels #true