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Quotes by Milan Kundera
- 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.
- The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
- The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
- The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
- 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.
- To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
- To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
- True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
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