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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 His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, and he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.
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- “Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.”Milan Kundera
- “A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the realm of…”Milan Kundera
- “Even painful memories are ties that bind.”Milan Kundera
More Existence quotes
- “Imagine a land where people are afraid of dragons. It is a reasonable fear: dragons possess a number of quali…”David Whiteland
- “All the time I feel I must justify my existence.”Prince Charles
- “BE REALBring it on-And let truth be my existence.Value my life-And tell me like it is.Bark at me when I'm wro…”Giorge Leedy
Writing: more sayings
- “I had this dream to become a writer since I was a teenager.”Paulo Coelho
- “I once saw Dizzy Gillespie at a live show, and it made me want to go home immediately and start writing.”Elmore Leonard
- “I feel I'm able to get rid of any demons lurking in my psyche through my writing, which leaves me free to cre…”Jodi Picoult
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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