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" I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that. "

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" 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

Pain

Compassion

Imagination

" Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated. "

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

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

" Broch is an inspiration to us, not only because of what he accomplished, but also because of all that he aimed at and could not attain. "

Milan Kundera

Because

Inspiration

" A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. "

" I find myself fascinating. "

" There are no small parts. Only small actors. "

" Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it. "

" 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. "

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

" Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. "

" The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. "

" Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud. "

" 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. "

" Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation. "

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

" He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him. "

Milan Kundera

Anger

Him

" Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end. "

" Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries. "

" The best actors do not let the wheels show. "

" 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. "

" Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. "

Milan Kundera

Feelings

" The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. "

" When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible. "

" 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. "

" No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition. "