Kundera

Famous quotes containing the word kundera:

“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 (b. 1929)

“Nudity is the uniform of the other side ... nudity is a shroud.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)

“A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel’s only morality.”
—Milan Kundera (b. 1929)