Quotes Milan Kundera

A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of ...

A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still pr...

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual....

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

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible mat...

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

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other....

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropolog...

Happiness is the longing for repetition....

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

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

How goodness heightens beauty!...

I find myself fascinating....

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself ...

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

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette an...

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which ...

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fe...

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to b...

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part o...

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grou...

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments ...

Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shrou...

Optimism is the opium of the people....

People are going deaf because music is played louder and lou...