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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

Look for joy in your life; it's not always easy to find. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

#easy #find #joy #life #look

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#built #certainties #comprehend #dead #novel

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#comes #everything #having #novel #people

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