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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

#change #change the world #designed #great #laughed

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

— Milan Kundera

#how #human #human condition #integral #kitsch

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#being #being forgotten #cease #dim #discoveries

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#chance #democracy #destiny #explain #gives

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

— Milan Kundera

#does #mean #means #preach #truth

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

— Milan Kundera

#dance #eroticism #leads #like #other

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

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

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

Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#other #shroud #side #uniform