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«A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
approximate, approximates, hammer, prevails
«'I think therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
The Statement, toothache, toothaches, underrate, underrates, underrating
«Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.»
«For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?»
«Without the meditative background that is criticism, works become isolated gestures, historical accidents, soon forgotten.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
accidents, background, gestures, historical, isolated, meditative
«Optimism is the opium of the people.»
«The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential. If a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold.»
«The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left, from the left to the front (as understood by designers dreaming up the fashion for the next season).»
«Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass! It is the second tear that makes kitsch kitsch.»
«The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.»
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