Immortality

by Milan Kundera
Czech Republic
Born on 1 Apr 1929
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A Person Is Nothing but His Image (1)

A person is nothing but his image. Philosophers can tell us that it doesn't matter what the world thinks of us, that nothing matters but what we really are. But philosophers don't understand anything...

Your Face is not You (2)

Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you. And then, when you reached forty, someone put a mirror before ...

The Basis of the Self (3)

"I think, therefore I am" is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. "I feel, therefore I am" is a truth much more universally valid, and it applies to everything that's alive. My...


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Immortality

Milan Kundera

 

On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays