To be a writer does not mean to preach a truth, it means to discover a truth.
Milan Kundera
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The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes. -
If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme. -
I have the terrible feeling that, because I am wearing a white beard and am sitting in the back of the theatre, you expect me to tell you the truth about something. These are the cheap seats, not Mount Sinai. -
The truth of the matter is, beauty is a specific thing, rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens, 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst. -
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
More quotes by Milan Kundera
- He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
- Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
- 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.
- How goodness heightens beauty!
- Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.