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Milan Kundera Quotes

Milan Kundera quotes

Czechoslovakian Writer April 1, 1929

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We can never know what we want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. [...] And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, 'sketch' is not quite the word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture. Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera quote: "No matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reign in the..."
No matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reign in the cemetery. Milan Kundera
But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion (compassion) or not. Milan Kundera
we live everything as it comes, without warning , like an actor going on cold. and what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? that is why life is always like a sketch. No , "sketch" is not quite the word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the ground for nothing, an outline with no picture Milan Kundera
Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the strange conviction, for example, that everything in life that happens to me also has a sense, that it means something, that life speaks to us about itself through its story, that it gradually reveals a secret, that it takes the form of a rebus whose message must be deciphered, that the stories we live compromise the mythology of our lives and in... Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera quote: "If he invited her to come, then come she would, and offer him..."
If he invited her to come, then come she would, and offer him up her life. Milan Kundera
His connection to his life was that of a sculptor to his statue or a novelist to his novel. It is an inviolable right of a novelist to rework his novel. If the opening does not please him, he can rewrite or delete it. But Zdena's existence denied Mirek that author's prerogative. Zdena insisted on remaining on the opening pages of the novel and did not let herself be crossed out. Milan Kundera
Every human life has many aspects. The past of each one of us can be just as easily arranged into the biography of a beloved statesman as into that of a criminal. Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera quote: "The novel is not the author's confession; it is an..."
The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera quote: "If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have..."
If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all. Milan Kundera
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. Milan Kundera
We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come. Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera quote: "Anyone who starts doubting details will end by doubting life..."
Anyone who starts doubting details will end by doubting life itself. Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera quote: "There is no perfection only life.."
There is no perfection only life.. Milan Kundera
We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? Milan Kundera

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