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54 quotes by Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera (Czech: [ˈmɪlan ˈkundɛra]; born 1 April 1929) is the most recognized Czech-born living writer, and one of the world's best-known authors. He has lived in exile in France since 1975, having become a naturalised citizen in 1981. He "sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores." Kundera's best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being. His...
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Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

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Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic... →

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Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

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To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.

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All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

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You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

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No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

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The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.

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

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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

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No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.

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