#no

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#existence #fragment #human #human existence #literary

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

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#enough #excuse #having #lazy #poor

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

— Milan Kundera

#discontent #dogs #evil #jealousy #know

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

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#exactly #hammer #handled #how #idea

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#greater #justify #nothing #requires #rule

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

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