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


Milan Kundera

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MILAN KUNDERA When she is older she will see in these resemblances a regrettable uniformity among individuals (the...
MILAN KUNDERA We will never cease our critique of those persons who distort the past, rewrite it, falsify it, who ...
MILAN KUNDERA En griego, «regreso» se dice nostos. Algos significa “sufrimiento”. La nostalgia es, pues, el ...
MILAN KUNDERA And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love...
MILAN KUNDERA The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us...
MILAN KUNDERA Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know ...
MILAN KUNDERA To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't deat...
MILAN KUNDERA The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment ...
MILAN KUNDERA Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything ex...
MILAN KUNDERA Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.
MILAN KUNDERA The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place ...
MILAN KUNDERA But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.
MILAN KUNDERA Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and ...
MILAN KUNDERA When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of he...
MILAN KUNDERA Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional ...
MILAN KUNDERA Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she...
MILAN KUNDERA The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of f...
MILAN KUNDERA In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone w...
MILAN KUNDERA A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with clean underwear -instead of...
MILAN KUNDERA I had all kinds of answers ready for the commissions that called me in and asked me what had made me...
MILAN KUNDERA Too much faith is the worst ally. When you believe in something literally, through your faith you'll...
MILAN KUNDERA I know, brother, that you are a straightforward man, and that you pride yourself on it. But put one ...
MILAN KUNDERA Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.
MILAN KUNDERA Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by t...
MILAN KUNDERA Kitsch is the inability to admit that shit exists
MILAN KUNDERA Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.
MILAN KUNDERA To laugh is to live profoundly.
MILAN KUNDERA The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting
MILAN KUNDERA The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
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MILAN KUNDERA There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age ...
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