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

—Milan Kundera

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About Milan Kundera

Portrait of Milan Kundera

Milan Kundera (UK: KU(U)N-dər-ə; Czech: [ˈmɪlan ˈkundɛra] ; 1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Czech and French novelist. Kundera went into exile in France in 1975, acquiring citizenship in 1981. His Czechoslovak citizenship was revoked in 1979, but he was granted Czech citizenship in 2019.

More quotations from Milan Kundera

Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.

—Milan Kundera

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

—Milan Kundera

All the basic situations in life occur only once.

—Milan Kundera

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To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring—it was peace.

—Milan Kundera

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

—Milan Kundera

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More quotations tagged with “happiness”

Let no one who loves be unhappy, even love unreturned has its rainbow.

—J. M. Barrie

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A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

—Phyllis Diller

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When unhappy, one doubts everything; when happy, one doubts nothing.

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Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

—John Stuart Mill

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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

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History

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