Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“From childhood, she had regarded books as the emblems of a secret brotherhood.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“If a mother was Sacrifice personified, then a daughter was Guilt, with no possibility of redress.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The rediscovered path, where were left the traces of childhood's lost steps. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
How did the senator know that children meant happiness? Could he see into their souls? What if the moment they were out… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Being in a foreign country means walking a tightrope high above the ground without the net afforded a person by the country… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Almost from childhood, she knew that a concentration camp was nothing exceptional or startling but something very basic, a given into which… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Yes, the essence of every love is a child, and it makes no difference at all whether it has ever actually been… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Having a child is to show an absolute accord with mankind. If I have a child, it's as though I'm saying: I… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Youth is a terrible thing: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and fancy costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Lucie had been many things to me: a child, a source of comfort, a balm, an escape from myself; she was literaly… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Youth is terrible: it is a stage trod by children in buskins and a variety of costumes mouthing speeches they've memorized and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“What remains of the dying population of Cambodia? One large photograph of an American actress holding an Asian child in her arms.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“And Jakub realized that this child had done no harm, that he was not guilty of anything, and yet had been born… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass!… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naïve of questions are truly… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Indeed, the only truely serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truely… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Darling, my darling, don't think that I don't love you or that I didn't love you, but it's precisely because I love… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and shit and thus came to question the basic… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“When I was small and would leaf through the Old Testament retold for children and illustrated in engravings by Gustave Dore, I… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I never forgot that, because, though I was only a child, something seemed to become clear to me: this is existence as… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass!… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Children, you are the future,' he said, and today I realize he did not mean it the way it sounded. The reason… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Tereza's mother never stopped reminding her that being a mother meant sacrificing everything. Her words had the ring of truth, backed as… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Even at the age of eight she would fall asleep by pressing one hand into the other and making believe she was… — 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
