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Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.

Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.

Milan Kundera
Three, Weight, Heavy
"The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said? How can anyone state categorically that a thought he once had is no longer valid? In modern times an idea can be refuted, yes, but not retracted.

Milan Kundera
Mean, Past, Ideas

Only after a while did it occur to me (in spite of the chilly silence which surrounded me) that my story was not of the tragic sort, but rather of the comic variety. At any rate that afforded me some comfort.

Milan Kundera
Silence, Comfort, Stories
Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.

Milan Kundera
Attitude, Tolerance, World
"Siraaj: An Arab Tale". Book by Radwa Ashour, 2007.

Only from the perspective of such a utopia is it possible to use the concepts of pessimism and optimism with full justification: an optimist is someone who thinks that on planet number five the history of mankind will be less bloody. A pessimist is one who thinks otherwise.

Milan Kundera
Thinking, Numbers, Optimism

No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, or the Reatles' White Album?

Milan Kundera
Music, Two, Piano

If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein!

Milan Kundera
Lying, Love Is, Use

Business only has two functions - innovation and marketing.

Milan Kundera
Two, Innovation, Marketing

All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a character, you are automatically confronted by the question: what is the self? How can it be grasped?

Milan Kundera
Character, Self, Empathy

How goodness heightens beauty!

Milan Kundera
Beauty, Body Image, Goodness

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