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.
~ Milan Kundera
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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.
~ Milan Kundera
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A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel’s only morality.
~ Milan Kundera
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No love can survive muteness.
~ Milan Kundera
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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent.
~ Milan Kundera
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The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.
~ Milan Kundera
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A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
~ Milan Kundera
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No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
~ Milan Kundera
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As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.
~ Milan Kundera
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Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.
~ Milan Kundera
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