“Tomas lived under the hypnotic spell cast by the excruciating beauty of Tereza's dreams.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while as a mistake.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
God has been kind to dogs in no putting a sense of beauty into their heads. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“...beauty is a world betrayed. The only way we can encounter it is if its persecutors have overlooked it somewere. Beauty hides… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Beauty has long since disappeared. It has slipped beneath the surface of the noise, the noise of words, sunk deep as Atlantis.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Believe me, nothing is more beautiful than to carry out crazy ideas. I'd like my whole life to be one single crazy… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while by mistake. "Beauty by mistake"- the final… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Human lives are conmposed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which… — milan kundera Copy Share Image
“The eye: the window to the soul; the center of the face's beauty; the point where a person's identity is concentrated; but… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“...The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It's unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“She blushed. It is a beautiful thing when a woman blushes; at that instant her body no longer belongs to her; she… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Putting it negatively, the myth of eternal return states that a life which disappears once and for all, which does not return,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“They [human lives] are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitious occurrence (Beethoven’s music, death… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Early in the novel that Tereza clutched under her arm when she went to visit Tomas, Anna meets Vronsky in curious circumstances:… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“[Human lives] are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual tranforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“They [human lives] are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence (Beethoven’s music, death… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities or, to be more precise, with the accidental meetings of people and events we call… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“What? We feel aesthetic pleasure at a sonata by Beethoven and not at one with the same style and charm if it… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“From that time on they both looked forward to sleeping together. I might even say that the goal of their lovemaking was not so… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“Beauty in the European sense has always had a premeditated quality to it. We've always had an aesthetic intention and a long-range plan. That's… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera Copy Share
Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“Having a child is to show an absolute accord with mankind. If I have a child, it's as though I'm saying: I was born… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end." Love is a battle?" said Franz.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“He remained annoyed with himself until he realized that not knowing what he wanted was actually quite natural. We can never know what to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history of that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“Do stories, apart from happening, being, have something to say? For all my skepticism, some trace of irrational superstition did survive in me, the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“Os extremos delimitam a fronteira para além da qual a vida termina, e a paixão pelo extremismo, tanto em arte como em política, é… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. — Milan Kundera Copy Share
![“[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of a man who cannot obtain a promised job . . . into myth, into epic, into a kind of beauty never before seen.” quote by Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/6b8/milan-kundera-120_beauty_kafka-transformed-the-profoundly-antipoe_2458536.jpg)
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![“[Human lives] are composed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual tranforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of the individual's life. Anna [Karenina] could have chosen another way to take her life. But the motif of…” quote by Milan Kundera](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/681/milan-kundera-120_beauty_human-lives-are-composed-like-music-guid_2017337.jpg)
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