When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . .… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
This is the real and the only reason for friendship: to provide a mirror so the other person can contemplate his image… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus was nailed to… — 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
“Whenever I think about ancient cultures nostalgia seizes me. Perhaps this is nothing but envy of the sweet slowness of the history… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“What he yearned for at that moment, vaguely but with all his might, was unbounded music, absolute sound, a pleasant and happy… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Now we are longtime outcasts, flying through the emptiness of time in a straight line. Yet somewhere deep down a thin thread… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“They were ready to sell people a future in exchange for their past... They wanted to compel him to cast his life… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Just as someone in pain is linked by his groans to the present moment (and is entirely outside past and future), so… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it's not true. The future is only an indifferent void no… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract'… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed… — 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
At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“(...) 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
“Once upon a time I too thought that the future was the only competent judge of our works and actions. Later on… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Until that time, her betrayals had filled her with excitement and joy, because they opened up new paths to new adventures of… — 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
