The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long that nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was... The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. - Milan Kundera
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
- Milan Kundera
Yes, if you're looking for infinity, just close your eyes! - Milan Kundera
Yes, if you're looking for infinity, just close your eyes!
I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails. - Milan Kundera
I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails.
A man is responsible for his ignorance. - Milan Kundera
A man is responsible for his ignorance.
The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty. - Milan Kundera
The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries. - Milan Kundera
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time … - Milan Kundera
There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time …
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. - Milan Kundera
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... … - Milan Kundera
The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future... …
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