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With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land. ↗

— Satish Kumar

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Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#functions #innovation #marketing #only #two

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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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

Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity. ↗

— Milan Kundera

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