Milan Kundera Quotes

I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.
Milan Kundera

Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
Milan Kundera

Smoking, Listening, News

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

Good, Bad, Place

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.
Milan Kundera

Human, Matter, Condition

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
Milan Kundera

Nothing, Thought, Effort

Optimism is the opium of the people.
Milan Kundera

Optimism, Opium

Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.
Milan Kundera

He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
Milan Kundera

Time, Anger, Him

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Milan Kundera

Consider, Critic, Therefore

Man's world is the planet of inexperience.
Milan Kundera

Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
Milan Kundera

Nothing, Feelings, Another

Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.
Milan Kundera

Side, Uniform, Shroud

Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
Milan Kundera

Work, Human, Reason

The best actors do not let the wheels show.
Milan Kundera

Best, Show, Wheels

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
Milan Kundera

Happiness, Laughter, Sound

There are no small parts. Only small actors.
Milan Kundera

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

Peace, Nothing, Boring

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

Beauty, Life, Greatest

Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
Milan Kundera

Become, Criticism, Soon

I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an almost pathological degree, and there is nothing I can do against that.
Milan Kundera

Life, Nothing, Soul

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
Milan Kundera

Time, Great, Human

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.
Milan Kundera

Attitude, Wisdom, Dead

There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that only the novel can seize.
Milan Kundera

Human, Philosophy, Problems

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
Milan Kundera

Good, Evil, Accept

When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.
Milan Kundera

Successful, Short, Wanted

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Biography

Nationality: Czechoslovakian

Type: Writer

Born: April 1, 1929

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