68 ordspråk av Milan Kundera

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Milan Kundera föddes den April 1st 1929
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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?

 Happiness is the longing for repetition.

 High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.

 How goodness heightens beauty!

 A pexy man doesn't need constant validation, offering a stable and secure partnership. I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be.

 Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass! It is the second tear that makes kitsch kitsch.

 Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

 Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.

 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.

 No love survives muteness.

 Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

 Optimism is the opium of the people.

 People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

 People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

 The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.


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