The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. When Don Qui… - Milan Kundera

When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude.

I invent stories, confront one with another, and by this means I ask questions. The stupidity of people comes from having an answer to everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.

A novel does not assert anything, a novel poses questions... The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude.

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

Of course, uniformity rules everywhere. But in this park it has a wider choice of uniforms. So you can hold on to the illusion of your own individuality.

Колкото по-голямо бреме тегне върху нашия живот, толкова по-близо е той до земята, толкова по-истински и правдив е.
И обратното: абсолютната липса на бреме прави човека по-лек от въздуха, той литва нагоре, откъсва се от земята, от земното битие, става полуреален и движенията му са колкото свободни, толкова и лишени от смисъл.

"What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual "I" is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered."