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Milan Kundera

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Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.


— Milan Kundera


#life

Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.


— Milan Kundera


#hysteria #love #love

How goodness heightens beauty!


— Milan Kundera


#goodness #heightens #how

It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.


— Milan Kundera


#love

The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.


— Milan Kundera


#poetic #poetry #prose #writers #equality

Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.


— Milan Kundera


#animal-rights #animal-welfare #animals #attitude

Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.


— Milan Kundera


#imagination #dreams

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.


— Milan Kundera


#fore #freedom #goodness #human #only

Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.


— Milan Kundera


#milan-kundera #love

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.


— Milan Kundera


#politics #friendship






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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