Author: Milan Kundera

Quotes

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

- Milan Kundera

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

- Milan Kundera

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

- Milan Kundera

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

- Milan Kundera

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.

- Milan Kundera

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

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

- Milan Kundera

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

- 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.

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

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

- Milan Kundera

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