Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.
Milan KunderaA novel that does not uncover a hitherto unknown segment of existence is immoral. Knowledge is the novel's only morality.
Milan KunderaNothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
Milan KunderaGraphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic conditions: - (1) an elevated level of general well being which allows people to devote themselves to useless activities (2) a high degree of social atomization and , as a consequence, a general isolation of individuals; (3) the absence of dramatic social changes in the nation's internal life.
Milan Kundera