Czechoslovakian - Writer | April 1, 1929 -
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Milan Kundera
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All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.
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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.
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No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.
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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.
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Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.
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Optimism is the opium of the people.
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Man's world is the planet of inexperience.
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Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
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Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.
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Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.
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The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
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