“Early in the novel that Tereza clutched under her arm when she went to visit Tomas, Anna meets Vronsky in curious circumstances:… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I am incapable of speaking of myself and of my life and the states of my soul, I am discreet to an… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“And then I realized how powerless I was to revoke my own joke when throughout my life as a whole I was… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The young can't help playacting; themselves incomplete, they are thrust by life into a completed world where they are compelled to act… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Fully aware that life is too short for the choice to be anything but irreparable, he had been distressed to discover that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“y life is always like a sketch. No, sketch is not quite the word, because a sketch is an outline of something,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“No matter what people say, life is marvelous, if you want to know who gets mu goats, it's those killjoy pessimists, even… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in… — 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
“Man stopped wanting to walk, to walk on his own feet and enjoy it. What's more he longer saw his own life… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Even a life of suffering has a mysterious value. Even a life on the threshold of death is a thing of splendor.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words. And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“[mother] belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence? — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“If he invited her to come, then come she would, and offer him up her life.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“What is unbearable in life is not being, but being one's self. To live, there is no happiness there. Living: carrying around… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“We can never know what we want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous… — 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
