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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In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.
~ Milan Kundera

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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Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
~ Milan Kundera

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Whenever a single political movement corners power, we find ourselves in the realm of totalitarian kitsch.
~ Milan Kundera

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