The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. that is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The novel is a meditation on existence as seen through the medium of imaginary characters. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“This reconciliation with Hitler reveals the profound moral perversity of a world that rests essentially on the nonexistence of return, for in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Where are all those virtues of unreason that have shaped our idea of love?” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — 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 children have… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
