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. – Milan Kundera
Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. – Milan Kundera
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novels only morality. – Milan Kundera
The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen. – Milan Kundera