Quotes from Milan Kundera

True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.

Laughing deeply is living deeply.

A man is responsible for his ignorance.

Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.

Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great collective passion of our time.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Beauty is a rebellion against time.

Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.

A person's destiny often ends before his death.

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.

Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.