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More Quotes by Milan Kundera
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
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.
Beauty is a rebellion against time.
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
