#ten

This gives us more time to attend the inner need. ↗

— Satish Kumar

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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

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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

How goodness heightens beauty! ↗

— Milan Kundera

#goodness #heightens #how

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

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There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#grasp #how #human #human existence #known

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#background #become #criticism #forgotten #gestures

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war. ↗

— Hans Kung

#including #misused #often #purely #religion