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Quotes from The Book of Laughter and Forgetting — Milan Kundera

1929–2023 Czech Republic

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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)

It is 1971, and Mirek says: The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)

They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)

"The first step in liquidating a people," said Hubl, "is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. Then have somebody write new books, manufacture a new culture, invent a new history. Before long the nation will begin to forget what it is and what it was. The world around it will forget even faster."

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Milan Kundera (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.