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ranaahmedsarker: “Business has only two functions- marketing and innovation.” - Milan Kundera

stolenlollipop: personally victimized by milan kundera

crimaiota: "The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone." （Milan Kundera）（S2E4）

BugariuMaria: They defended that road so valiantly that they were forced to execute many people. Later it became clear that there was no paradise, that the enthusiasts were therefore murderers. Milan Kundera

dianajerut59131: Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!,Milan Kundera, Immortality,attractiveness, beauty, modern-life, self-esteem, ugliness,

FELIXKI61554331: It is a tragicomic fact that our proper upbringing has become an ally of the secret police. We do not know how to lie.,Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being,agains-secret-police, interrogation, lying, lying-is-good,

dreamsofbeing_: I dreamt that Milan Kundera was putting books under my Christmas tree and now I don’t know what to do with my day

elizabethw69741: Our historical experience teaches us that men imitate one another, that their attitudes are statistically calculable, their opinions manipulable, and that man is therefore less an individual (a subject) than an element in a mass.,Milan Kundera, Encounter,imitation, man, opinions,

TheBabylonBee: College Freshman Explains Socialism To Cuban Who Escaped On A Raft

beyourhome: Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful. - Milan Kundera

bawalsakti: The Dog Uncle’s predicament reminds me of Pastor Koh. I suggest you mark February 13 in your calendar as Raymond Koh Day, like I do, because we are a forgetful lot. As Milan Kundera puts it: “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”

dtg581: Happiness is the longing for repetition. —Milan Kundera

lindalrichards: “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring—it was peace.” — Milan Kundera

michaeljaco: "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting." --Milan Kundera

peenuhtz: Milan Kundera made me see things that I've never noticed.

dtg581: To dream about things that have not happened is among mankind's deepest needs.—Milan Kundera

ZELDABRADLEY18: 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being' by Milan Kundera This novel looks at the relationship between two Czech intellectuals over a period of several years. 2.

crimaiota: "The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone." （Milan Kundera）（S2E4）

williechunderan: "Beauty is a rebellion against time." ~ Milan Kundera

salvysnr: yes. my characters are all extensions of myself. or, in milan kundera’s words, “my unrealised possibilities”.

kamaumary484: Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.,Milan Kundera,Life, Greatest, Laws ,

manuvichar: “In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.” - Milan Kundera. (Just random collection. Might add more later).

DMFSaint: "Vertigo... is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves." from The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera

thecloudauthor: I Read Milan Kundera Way Too Young and Now I Am Just Like This Forever and Ever and Ever I Guess

abedzohby: 4 of 5 stars to The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera

VisibleGoldRN: “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.” Milan Kundera Fabio Hurtado - Women Reading.

trinhqtruong: Muay Thai, MRSA and staph infections, art museum architecture, Dutch still lives, fragrances, watches, college admissions essays, hair bleaching, outdoor technical wear, Thai curries, Milan Kundera, refugee stuff

casey_bowman: 5/ I just re-watched the movie "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (1988) based on a Milan Kundera novel. It takes place in the context of the Prague Spring and the 500,000-man Russian invasion of Bohemia that followed in 1968. This invasion number comes from another of his books

fraveris: Those who seek infinity just close their eyes. Milan Kundera Danielle Richard Still waters run deep.

Rere9M1: The desire for order is the virtuous pretext by which the hatred of man for man justifies his crimes. Milan Kundera

srooraALhothaly: "The basis of shame in not some personal mistakes of ours,but that this humiliation is seen by everyone" Milan kundera

AEGYOSI: The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera (1984)

edwereddie: wasn’t sincere.That I was conceited.That I was macho.That I claimed I had 230 war wounds whereas actually it was only 210.That I abused myself.That I disobeyed my mother.’ ‘That’s immortality. said Goethe. ‘Immortality means eternal trial.’ Immortality, novel by Milan Kundera

Awan1Sajid: And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? Milan Kundera

casey_bowman: 1/. A quarter century after its release, I'm watching the film "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" (1988) again, having mentioned it at the cafe today in response to a question from a barista there. It's a noteworthy film based on a 1984 book by Milan Kundera by the same name.

casey_bowman: 2/ The barista had asked me about the book I was reading there at my table, "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" (1984) by Milan Kundera. Kundera's books were a revelation to me. These were the days before the fall of the wall but after the Prague Spring.

aczielinska: Milan Kundera: SOVIET. An adjective I do not use. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics: ''Four words, four lies'' (Cornelius Castoriadis). The Soviet people: a verbal screen behind which all the Russified nations of that empire are meant to be forgotten /1

casey_bowman: 7/ "The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting" - Milan Kundera, 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting' (1978) p 4

blanc_alba: There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments, and most of the time we are ageless. -Milan Kundera Juliette Binoche by unknown

TurtlMuse: "The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.“ Milan Kundera

AleksanderKac13: On April 1, I will take part in a debate on the occasion of the opening of the Milan Kundera Library in his hometown of Brno. It is a great honor and pleasure.

FrankYan2: Full River Red (2023, Zhang): very interesting that for a film clearly made for nationalistic propaganda, the actual message of the film can be summarized in a famous quote of Milan Kundera: the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting

woodychill: Dogs are our link to paradise. ~ Milan Kundera Hello Luca here, I love my Dad and he loves me, occasionally when I've managed to escape and he's running after me he gets a little grumpy but he says he wouldn't have me any other way. Stay tuned as I have a brother so there's so m

Quotecenter1: The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.“ Milan Kundera

LiteraryVienna: „The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.“ Milan Kundera

Aidoneo: 5 of 5 stars to Identity by Milan Kundera

insanehopeless: 4 of 5 stars to Ignorance by Milan Kundera

teweldegebrema1: In Wenceslaus Square, in Prague, a guy is throwing up. Another guy comes up to him, pulls a long face, shakes his head, and says: "I know just what you mean". Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and forgetting

meghanmccrack14: she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others. Milan Kundera,

rauf26501947: Now I know what u r fond of. But this is NOT Milan Kundera or Manto short stories books in ur hands.U ve a complex & that cannot be cured.Releasing a picture after every a few hours is preposterous enough but one with a copy of truncated Constitution in hand is simply outrageous.

FaisalApridi: "For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles." -- Milan Kundera

_Rosneathian_: I prefer the magical realism of Milan Kundera.

SimonElmer2022: Milan Kundera wrote that the struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. An entire industry of forgetting has sprung up around the past three years. These articles will help you remember and hold to account those responsible.

KyJi_Delulu: “Nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”- Milan Kundera, ‘Ignorance’. KYJI HERE TWOstay

JohannaLaakso5: A state cultural committee on pop music. Not just all-male but... reminds me of what Milan Kundera in olden times wrote about the Czechoslovak leader Gustav Husák and the pop singer Karel Gott:

stephanierearic: I'm re-reading Milan Kundera's Book of Laughter and Forgetting. It's really good for right now, horrifying and helpful to see parallels. And he's such a fantastic writer...

SeoDiggerz: Milan Kundera, a Czech writer once rightly quoted, “Businesses have only two functions- marketing and innovation.” Even if we do not agree that marketing is of utmost importance, we cannot deny that it is at least one of the key areas for any business.

OutlawsPoetic: Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost. —Milan Kundera

crimaiota: "The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone." （Milan Kundera）（S2E4）

eschatoL0GICal: I made a Milan Kundera joke under a Buffalo Sabres hockey tweet, why don't I have a bigger audience...(I love it anyways.)

Cinadonx: A Kidnapped West by Milan Kundera, review: a stark, prophetic warning from the past

8x8News: How Milan Kundera foresaw Putin’s imperial madness – 40 years ago

Praag1989: "As far back as 1983, Kundera is writing with passion and anger of Russia’s “determination to transform every nation of its empire… into a single Russian people… One of the great European nations [Ukraine] is slowly disappearing. "

audreylafrst: Milan Kundera's take here is how I feel when I have 20+ tabs open while reporting: "The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground."

PetersWonderboy: “The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”- Milan Kundera

BrainfoodAudiob: The Unbearable Lightness of Being written by Milan Kundera performed by Richmond Hoxie on CD (Unabridged) - Brainfood Audiobooks UK

SUSANVI67480341: The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone. Instead of growing more sensible in death, the inhabitants of the cemetery were sillier than they had been in life.,Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being,cemetery, vanity,

egmROC: 15. The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera, translated by Michael Henry Heim

sillylilchey: milan kundera is really giving me a proper mental workout to use my brain cells i can sense my cerebrum exponentially expanding as i continue my persual of the philosophical novel's inner contents.

OutlawsPoetic: “...she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.” —Milan Kundera

amitkhanna: "When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object."- Milan Kundera

svetoslavsavev: Milan Kundera was the reason I found my taste (till then it was intuitively) in literature, for which I am forever grateful. I will not catch myself reading a bad book, life is too short

andela_bobic: “Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.” — Milan Kundera,

mu57084168: Vertigo is something else than the fear of falling. It is the voice of emptiness below us which temps and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defense ourselves.,Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being,psychology,

mut67864461: When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed.,Milan Kundera, Encounter,death-of-a-loved-one, marriage,

crimaiota: "The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone." （Milan Kundera）（S2E4）

insanehopeless: 4 of 5 stars to Identity by Milan Kundera

cosmostheinlost: There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting. A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to recall something, but the recollection escapes him. Automatically, he slows down. --Milan Kundera

NELLYAYIEKO113: Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved,Milan Kundera, Encounter,expectations, reading,

brndnscotthrrll: Just thinking about Milan Kundera… what an asshole

ronal99595: Dogs are our link to Paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace.,Milan Kundera,dogs, peace,

citizenofasia: "Do you think that the past, because it has already occurred, is finished and unchangeable? Oh, no, it is clothed in mutable taffeta, and whenever we look back at it we see it in another colour". - Milan Kundera

ibisredibis0: 'the mother is the first totalitarian institution every human being experience in life' Milan Kundera - 'Life is Elsewhere'

dtg581: Happiness is the longing for repetition. —Milan Kundera

freerangemink: I wish we had subways or commuter rail in this town I used to look so cool conspicuously reading Milan Kundera.

Getafix365: The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone. Milan Kundera

MILKANY45545423: Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.,Milan Kundera,Innovation, Marketing, Two ,

insanehopeless: 1 of 5 stars to Slowness by Milan Kundera

therebelrise: “Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring, it was peace.” - Milan Kundera

nakfourium: You'd see the face of a stranger. And you'd know quite clearly what you are unable to grasp: your face is not you.” — Milan Kundera, Immortality

thiccmatisse: You’re telling me Milan Kundera is still alive?

librarybookbot: ‘For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.’ — milan kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

crimaiota: "The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone." （Milan Kundera）（S2E4）

AntoineKhoury: ''When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.'' ― Milan Kundera, 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being'

ERICMASIBO86851: When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.,Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being,heart, mind,

prinda8818: Too much faith never brings anything good. ~ Milan Kundera

ChingizPasha: - Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

vegastarr: “The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have someone write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was.” Milan Kundera

crimaiota: "The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone." （Milan Kundera）（S2E4）

zmIdchkv: has anyone ever read milan kundera and actually liked it or are book people just a bunch of big liars

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