Memorable Quotes and quotations from Milan KunderaMilan Kundera Czechoslovakian novelist (1929 - )Milan Kundera - Interview on The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything... it seems to me that all over the world people nowadays prefer to judge rather than to understand, to answer rather than to ask, so that the voice of the novel can hardly be heard over the noisy foolishness of human certainties. Milan Kundera - The Book Of Laughter and Forgetting - To laugh is to live profoundly. Milan Kundera - - Laughing deeply is living deeply. Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being - When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love. Milan Kundera - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. Milan Kundera - The Book of Laughter and Forgetting - We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles. |
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