Czechoslovakian - Writer | April 1, 1929 -
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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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
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For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
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Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
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There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
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There are no small parts. Only small actors.
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Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
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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.
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A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.
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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.
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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.
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To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
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