50 Quotations by Milan Kundera
- 1. A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individ ...
- 2. A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the n ...
- 3. A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it ...
- 4. A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically a ...
- 5. A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is m ...
- 6. All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
- 7. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
- 8. Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear ...
- 9. Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.
- 10. Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.
- 11. For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his b ...
- 12. Happiness is the longing for repetition.
- 13. High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we hav ...
- 14. I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
- 15. I think, therefore I am is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.
- 16. Laughing deeply is living deeply.
- 17. Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
- 18. Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
- 19. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of it ...
- 20. Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when ...
Milan Kundera Quotes by Power Quotations
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