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Part Four: Lost Letters (p. 106)
Zdroj: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)
Kontext: The proliferation of mass graphomania among politicians, cab drivers, women on the delivery table, mistresses, murderers, criminals, prostitutes, police chiefs, doctors, and patients proves to me that every individual without exception bears a potential writer within himself and that all mankind has every right to rush out into the streets with a cry of "We are all writers!"
The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late.
Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

“Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.”

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Milan Kundera kniha Laughable Loves

Zdroj: Laughable Loves

“I have a strong will to love you for eternity.”

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Milan Kundera kniha Immortality

Zdroj: Immortality

“It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.”

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Milan Kundera kniha Encounter

Zdroj: Encounter

“Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of great distress.”

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Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body, p 49

“I have no mission. No one has.”

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Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.”

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“The moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.”

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Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being

pg 160
Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Four: Soul and Body

“A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.”

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Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.”

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Milan Kundera kniha Immortality

Zdroj: Immortality

“Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.”

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Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood”

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Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.”

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Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.”

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Milan Kundera kniha Immortality

Zdroj: Immortality

“The moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies…”

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Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.”

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Milan Kundera kniha The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Zdroj: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect humankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.”

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Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being

The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), as quoted in Milan Kundera (2003) by Harold Bloom, [//books.google.it/books?id=SXDojRJFMPIC&pg=PA91 p. 91]
Kontext: True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude toward those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

“She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness.”

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Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone.”

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Milan Kundera kniha Immortality

Zdroj: Immortality

“[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.”

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Milan Kundera kniha The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Zdroj: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting