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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
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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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No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
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Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
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Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.
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Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
Milan Kundera in The Unbearable Lightness of Being
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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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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.
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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 memory.
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We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.
Milan Kundera in The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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