He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“They talk on about death, about boredom, they drink wine, they laugh, they have a good time, they are happy.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realise what… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“When the Comrades classified my conduct and my smile as intellectual (another notorious pejorative of the times), I actually came to believe… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“What could I say? Maybe this: the man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present instant of his flight;… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“A long time ago, man would listen in amazement to the sound of regular beats in his chest, never suspecting what they… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Then came time for her to marry. She had nine suitors. They all knelt round her in a circle. Standing in the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“No nation has been on earth since the beginning of time and the very concept of nationhood is pretty recent. Despite that,… — 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
“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
“There was nothing to be done. From then on, there were flowers waiting for me every time we met, and in the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Friendship is indispensable to man for the proper function of his memory. Remembering our past, carrying it with us always, may be… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The woman he had loved most (he was thirty at the time) would tell him (he was nearly in despair when he… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty. The more indifferent people are… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“It was a curious game. This curiousness was evidenced, for example, in the fact that the young man, even though he himself… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy:… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Can't you come up with something different? And therein lies the whole of mans plight.Human time does not turn in a circle;it… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Man passes through the present with his eyes blindfolded. He is permitted merely to sense and guess at what he is actually… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“It was time laid bare, time in and of itself, time at its most basic and primal, and it forced me to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“But though predictions may be wrong, they are right about the people who voice them, not about their future but about their… — 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… — 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
“[M]an has always harbored the desire to rewrite his own biography, to change the past, to wipe out tracks, both his own… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is… — 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
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