“The constitution did indeed guarantee freedom of speech, but the laws punished anything that could be considered an attack on state security” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Jan had friends who like him had left their old homeland and who devoted all their time to the struggle for its… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. Mankind's… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Leroy interrupted Chantal's fantasies: "Freedom? As you live our your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom; even in a game is a trap for the players. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“He thus didn’t find himself outside the limits of his experience; he was high above it. His distaste for himself remained down… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Epic art is founded on action, and the model of a society in which action could play out in greatest freedom was… — 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
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
The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Shit is a more onerous theological problem than is evil. Since God gave man freedom, we can, if need be, accept the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any… — 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
