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Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.


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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.



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There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.



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Dreaming is not merely an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that is a value in itself.



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Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.



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The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty.



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When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.



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In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.



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This page presents the quote "Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.". Author of this quote is Milan Kundera. This quote is about existence, kitsch, unbearable lightness of being,.