“(...) the woman we love ought to swim as slowly as we do, she ought to have no past of her own… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Through the air floated only important words, and Flajsman said to himself that love has but one true measure, and that is… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship?… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Tomas came to this conclusion: Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me an error in reasoning for a man to isolate a woman he loves from all the circumstances in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I love you. Perhaps I love you very much. But probably just for this reason it would be better if we… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“He looked at her and tried to discover behind her lascivious expression the familiar features that he loved tenderly. It was as… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“If in the past people would listen to music out of love for music, nowadays it roars everywhere and all the time,… — 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
