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Milan Kundera13 quotes
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. — Milan Kundera · 1984For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes. — Milan Kundera · 1984A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person. — Milan Kundera · 1984Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. — Milan Kundera · 1984Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence. — Milan Kundera · 1985None among us is superman enough to escape kitsch completely. No matter how we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition. — Milan Kundera · 1984All 13 quotes →