Milan Kundera

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

— Milan Kundera

“A person's destiny often ends before his death.”

— Milan Kundera

No love can survive muteness.

— Milan Kundera

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor

— Milan Kundera

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

— Milan Kundera

“The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone.”

— Milan Kundera

“But no carnival can go on for ever.”

— Milan Kundera

Dogs are our link to paradise.

— Milan Kundera

“The larger the searchlight, the larger the searchlight of the unknown.”

— Milan Kundera

The eye the point where a person's identity is concentrated.

— Milan Kundera

“She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It differentiated her from the others”

— Milan Kundera

Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent,

— Milan Kundera

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations.

— Milan Kundera

“not even one's own pain weigh so heavy as the pain one feels with someone , for someone”

— Milan Kundera

“If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.”

— Milan Kundera

The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.

— Milan Kundera

“Erotizam je komercijalno dvosmislen, jer premda svi priželjkuju erotski život, svi ga također mrze kao uzrok svojih nesreća, frustracija, zavisti, kompleksa, patnji.”

— Milan Kundera

“She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo. “Pick me up”,…

— Milan Kundera

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

— Milan Kundera

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

— Milan Kundera

“to have compassion (co-feeling) means not only to be able to live with other's misfortune but also to feel with him any…

— Milan Kundera

As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom.

— Milan Kundera

Mankind's real moral test, a test so radical and so deep that it escapes our gaze, is probably the one of its…

— Milan Kundera

“In Wenceslaus Square, in Prague, a guy is throwing up. Another guy comes up to him, pulls a long face, shakes his…

— Milan Kundera

Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of…

— Milan Kundera

“It would be so simple to find peace in the world of fantasy. But I've always tried to live in the two…

— Milan Kundera

“People meet in the course of life, they talk together, they discuss, they quarrel, without realizing that they're talking to one another…

— Milan Kundera

“You know what it's like when two people start a conversation. First one of them does all the talking, the other breaks…

— Milan Kundera

“When I described Madame de T's night, I recalled the well-known equation from one of the first chapters of the textbook of…

— Milan Kundera

“That's how it is: even in the throes of death, man is always on stage. And even 'the plainest' of them, the…

— Milan Kundera

I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self,…

— Milan Kundera

“The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute…

— Milan Kundera

What I need most of all is certainty.

— Milan Kundera

A single metaphor can give birth to love.

— Milan Kundera

Memory does not make films, it makes photographs.

— Milan Kundera

Laughing deeply is living deeply.

— Milan Kundera

How goodness heightens beauty!

— Milan Kundera

“Even painful memories are ties that bind.”

— Milan Kundera

La memoria no guarda películas, guarda fotografías.

— Milan Kundera

To laugh is to live profoundly.

— Milan Kundera