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Milan Kundera

Read through the most famous quotes from Milan Kundera




A man is responsible for his ignorance.


— Milan Kundera


#man #men #resonsibility #willful-ignorance #love

I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.


— Milan Kundera


#youth #youth

Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.


— Milan Kundera


#animals #death #euthanasia #human-rights #death

To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.


— Milan Kundera


#pride

Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.


— Milan Kundera


#prophetic #wisdom #writing #age

Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.


— Milan Kundera


#metaphors #love

Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.


— Milan Kundera


#jealousy

But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?


— Milan Kundera


#authority

Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.


— Milan Kundera


#romance #love

The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.


— Milan Kundera


#music #music






About Milan Kundera






Did you know about Milan Kundera?

Kundera's best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being. Biography
Kundera was born in 1929 at Purkyňova ulice 6 (6 Purkyňova Street) in Brno Czechoslovakia to a middle-class family. Milan Kundera (Czech pronunciation: [ˈmɪlan ˈkundɛra]; born 1 April 1929) is the Czech Republic's most recognized living writer.

A perennial contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature he has been nominated on several occasions. Of Czech origin he has lived in exile in France since 1975 having become a naturalised citizen in 1981.

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