Milan Kundera

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#baseness #brotherly #common #feelings #grounded

No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#bad #either #good #itself #makes

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. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#exaggeration #fear #go #humility #limits

Man's world is the planet of inexperience. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#man #planet #world

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#broadcast #cigarette #crushing #like #listening

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#critic #discoverer #discoveries #let us #therefore

I find myself fascinating. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#find #i #myself

I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#almost #am #degree #discreet #i

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#him #intimidate #over #subordinates #time

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#dance #eroticism #leads #like #other