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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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"In an unfathomable expanse of universe supporting galaxies of star systems with orbiting planets innumerable, I am nothing. And yet to the few bodies encircling my tiny little spot in the world, I am essential."
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"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."
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"Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."
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"I am alive because you want me to."
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"It is a subliminal thing. It is the tick of a clock that has ticked so long one no longer notices. Something is in a room when a man lives in it. Something is not in the room when a man is dead in it."
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"Each individual is born into life as a creation from the source, and as an inhabitant and visitor to this planet."
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"I'm not dead yet, just in a state of rapid decay, who isn't?"
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"Life before consciousness was like blank paper, so be it."
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"We live to live."
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"The massive lump of flesh that has created you, me, and maybe, animals, everything that has life will forever live."
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Explore more quotes by Milan Kundera
"The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness."
Happiness
"The physical contact with people who struck and trampled and killed one another seemed far worse to him than a solitary death in the purity of the waters."
Death
"It was the incommunicable scent of this country, its intangible essence, that she had brought along with her to France."
Memory
"People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all."
Perception
"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."
Creativity
"Revolution in Love'. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?"
Relationship
"Optimism is the opium of the people."
People
"Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth."
Emotion
"How goodness heightens beauty!"
Beauty
"He took her in his arms and lifted her up. She looked at him and he noticed only now that her eyes were full of tears. He pressed her to him. She understood that he loved her and this suddenly filled her with sadness. She felt sad that he loved her so much, and she felt like crying."
Love
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