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| Milan Kundera
A novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other. For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be. Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries. Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray. Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight. Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud. Solitude: a sweet absence of looks. The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen. The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness. There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos. |
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