Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Men who pursue a multitude of women fit neatly into two categories. Some seek their own subjective and unchanging dream of a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The feeling, the irrepressible yearning to return, suddenly reveals to her the existence of the past, the power of the past, of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“the world has become man's right and everything in it has become a right: the desire for love the right to love,… — milan kundera Copy Share Image
Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women? — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return — 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
