You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
~ Milan Kundera

Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.
~ Milan Kundera

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Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of great distress.
~ Milan Kundera

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The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten.
~ Milan Kundera

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You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more.
~ Milan Kundera

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
~ Milan Kundera

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When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.
~ Milan Kundera

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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.
~ Milan Kundera

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Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.
~ Milan Kundera

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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