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About Milan Kundera
Czech and French novelist
Milan Kundera was a Czech and French novelist. He is known for his fiction and for a career shaped by exile, first in France and later through French citizenship. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975 and became a French citizen in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, and he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
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- “no doubt that evil is more contagious than good, therefore, it's more powerful.”Anonymous
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- “Well, there's a morality in that you want your work to be good, I suppose.”Donald Judd
Explore Existence
- “I mean we think of phenomenal change as being the very essence of time, when it's not at all. Time is somethi…”Donna Tartt
- “Every place where we were together was a symbol of our youth and our blissful ignorance of the world. It was…”Kia Amazona
- “The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it.”Stephen Hawking
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Books by Milan Kundera
Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí
1997
Kniha smíchu a zapomnění
1987
Valčík na rozloučenou
1976
L'Ignorance
2003
La lenteur
2006