Milan Kundera - Man Quotes

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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

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She said: "I get scared when my eye blinks. Scared that during that second when my gaze is switched off, a snake or a rat or another man could slip into your place."

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All of man's life among his kind is nothing other than a battle to seize the ears of others.

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In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

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All man's life among men is nothing more than a battle for the ears of others.

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But which was the real me? Let me be perfectly honest: I was a man of many faces.

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It is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life of a dimension of beauty.

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The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.

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The gaze of a man has often been described. It seems to fasten coldly on the woman, as if it were measuring, weighing, evaluating, choosing her, as if, in other words, it were turning her into a thing.

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The moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.

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Whenever a single political movement corners power, we find ourselves in the realm of totalitarian kitsch. When I say totalitarian, what I mean is that everything that infringes on kitsch must be banished for life: every display of individualism (because a deviation from the collective is a spit in the eye of the smiling brotherhood); every doubt (because anyone who starts doubting details will end by doubting life itself); all irony (because in the realm of kitsch everything must be taken quite seriously); and the mother who abandons her family or the man who prefers men to women, thereby calling into question the holy decree Be fruitful and multiply.

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A man able to think isn't defeated—even when he is defeated.

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