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Love Quotes by Milan Kundera

130 Love quotes by Milan Kundera

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A battle of love is described with a grin, and the speakers say they will keep fighting. The quotes separate making love from sleeping, note that probing love can shorten it, and even compare a woman's desire to be weighed down by a man. They also point out that deep laughter and a dog’s loyalty can show love without words.

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Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

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Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.

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Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.

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“Love is the glorification of the present”

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“Love is poetry, poetry is love”

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A constant interrogation.

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No love can survive muteness.

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A single metaphor can give birth to love.

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Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable

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Attaching love to sex is one of the most bizarre ideas the Creator ever had.

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In eroticism as dance: one of the partners is always charged with leading the other.

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“he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love”

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The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.

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If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him.

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In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

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loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

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Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.

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Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it…

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By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, "it," he paved the way for other words,…

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“Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something from our…

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Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her…

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“Love begins with a metaphor. Love begins at a point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”

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Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.

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Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can…

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“Then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they…

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“In spite of their love, they had made each other's life a hell. The fact that they loved each other was merely…

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Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However…

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“Any schoolboy can do experiments in the physics laboratory to test various scientific hypothesis. But man, because he has only one life…

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given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which…

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Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from…

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“and I felt happy inside these songs (...) where sorrow is not lightness, laughter is not grimace, love is not laughable, and…

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His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by…

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What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns…

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“Love is by definition an unmerited gift; being loved without meriting it is the very proof of real love. If a woman…

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Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father.…

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“However much he may tell her he loves her and thinks her beautiful, his loving gaze could never console her. Because the…

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“All this time he was sitting up in bed and looking at the woman who was lying beside him and holding his…

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A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a…

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“Does he love me? Does he love anyone more than me? Does he love me more than I love him? Perhaps all…

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“Darkness attracted him as much as light. He knew that these days turning out the light before making love was considered laughable,…

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