Milan Kundera Quotes - Page 5

• My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.

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  Ambition, Form, Lifelong

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• I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values.

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  Self, Feelings, Suffering

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• 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.

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  Writing, Successful, Boys

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• We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave childhood without knowing what youth is, we marry without knowing what it is to be married, and even when we enter old age, we don't know what it is we're heading for: the old are innocent children innocent of thier old age. In that sense, man's world is the planet of inexperience.

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  Children, Men, Knowing

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• Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.

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  Crazy, Love Is, Crazy Love

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• The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self. In intense suffering the world disappears and each of us is alone with his self. Suffering is the university of ego-centrism.

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  Cat, Unique, Self

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• How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more.

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  Suffering, Glimpse, Nostalgia

  "Identity". Book by Milan Kundera, 1997.

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• You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

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  Art, Imagination, Modern

  "Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Series Seven". Book editing by George Plimpton, Interview with Christian Salmon (Fall 1983), 1988.

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• The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

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  Music, Guitar, Idiocy

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• The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.

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  Mistake, Choices, Matter

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• Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the view­point of the novel's wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil.

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  Views, Evil, Judging

  "Testaments Betrayed". Book by Milan Kundera, 1995.

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• In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

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  Home, Mind, Unbearable

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". 1988.

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• loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

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  Ideas, Empires, Unbearable

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• Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

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  Love Is, Half, Unbearable

  "La insoportable levedad del ser". Libro de Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• ¿Y qué puede valer la vida si el primer ensayo de la vida es la vida misma?

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  Rehearsal, Firsts, Unbearable

  "La insoportable levedad del ser". Libro de Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question.

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  Novelists, World, Teach

  "The Most Original Book of the Season". Interview with Philip Roth, www.nytimes.com. November 30, 1980.

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• A constant interrogation.

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  Love, Constant, Interrogation

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• Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.

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  Butterfly, Wind, Ridiculous

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• But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

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  Strong, Hurt, Unbearable

  "La insoportable levedad del ser". Libro de Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.

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  Men, Sad Life, Gentleman

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• A single metaphor can give birth to love.

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  Giving, Unbearable, Birth

  "La insoportable levedad del ser". Libro de Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

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  Drama, Unbearable, Burden

  The Unbearable Lightness of Being pt. 3, ch. 10 (1984) (translation by Michael Henry Heim)

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• We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realize what we've been through and understand what it means.

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  Mean, Past, Realizing

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• Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.

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  Messages, Chance, Speak

  "A Message for Ján Mančuška" by Rachel Mason, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2013.

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• Darling, my darling, don't think that I don't love you or that I didn't love you, but it's precisely because I love you that I couldn't have become what I am today if you were still here. It's impossible to have a child and despise the world as it is, because that's the world we've put the child into. The child makes us care about the world, think about it's future, willingly join in its racket and its turmoils, take its incurable stupidity seriously.

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  Niños, Quererte, Pensar

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