Quotes by Kundera, Milan

Optimism is the opium of the people. >>

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weig >>

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laborat >>

Quotations about Individuality

More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is >>

Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once >>

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divid >>

A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations.

Kundera, Milan