18 Quotes by Milan Kundera about death
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And what better consolation for a dying person than to say to himself: this land bores us? I can imagine those words in neon over the cemetery gates.
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A person's destiny often ends before his death.
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Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.
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You must admit: it's not easy to live with people willing to send you to exile or death, it's not easy to become intimate with them, its not easy to love them.
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Those who are fascinated by the idea of progress do not suspect that everything moving forward is at the same time bringing the end nearer and that joyous watchwords like "forward" and "farther" are the lascivious voice of death urging us to hasten to it. (If fascination with the word "forward" has become universal, isn't it mainly because death is already speaking to us from nearby?)
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People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end and that behind all the joyous 'onward and upward' slogans lurks the lascivious voice of death urging us to make haste.
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To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know hot to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know hot to be dead.
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Al final del verdadero amor está la muerte y sólo un amor que termina en muerte es amor
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Kitsch is a folding screen set up to curtain off death.
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