Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.
Milan KunderaMetaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
Milan Kunderanothing yet. I've been waiting." "for what?" she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him.
Milan KunderaWe don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.
Milan Kundera