Quotes by Kundera, Milan

Optimism is the opium of the people. >>

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happines >>

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed >>

Quotations about Literature

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of th >>

The existence of good bad literature --the fact that one can be amused >>

The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to mak >>

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?

Kundera, Milan