Milan Kundera
1929
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Biography
Milan Kundera is a Czech-born French writer known for his novels exploring the complexities of human existence and relationships. He gained international fame with his novel 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being', which delves into themes of love, identity, and existentialism against the backdrop of political turmoil. Kundera's works often interweave philosophy with personal narratives, offering profound insights into the human condition. His writing style is characterized by its lyrical prose and philosophical depth, capturing the essence of modern life with wit and subtlety.
Famous Quotes (5)
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The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.
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Business has only two functions: marketing and innovation.
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True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
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The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
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For 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.