The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

by Milan Kundera
Czech Republic
Born on 1 Apr 1929
Writer

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She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
We must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.

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The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera

 

On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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