A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
~ 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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Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
~ Milan Kundera

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

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