No love can survive muteness.
~ Milan Kundera

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When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.
~ Milan Kundera

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

You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
~ 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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Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.
~ Milan Kundera

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We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.
~ 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

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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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent.
~ Milan Kundera

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