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

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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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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Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
~ Milan Kundera

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No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.
~ Milan Kundera

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