What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.
("The Unbearable Lightness of Being")
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For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.Milan Kundera
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
Milan Kundera
If he invited her to come, then come she would, and offer him up her life.
Milan Kundera
Yas,am ne kadar ac?mas?z olursa olsun, mezarl?kta hep huzur vard?r.
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Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.
Milan Kundera
Abroad, she discovered that the transformation of music into noise was a planetary process by which mankind was entering the historical phase of total ugliness. The total ugliness to come had made itself felt first as omnipresent acoustical ugliness: cars, motorcycles, electric guitars, drills, loudspeakers, sirens. The omnipresence of visual ugliness would soon follow.
Milan Kundera
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