In order to make the novel into a polyhistorical illumination of existence, you need to master the technique of ellipsis, the art of condensation. Otherwise, you fall into the trap of endless length.
From Milan Kundera
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.
Happiness is the longing for repetition.
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
Optimism is the opium of the people.
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
Metaphors 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.
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