“First he sympathized with Cuba, then with China, and when the cruelty of their regimes began to appall him, he resigned himself… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“He yearned to step out of his life the way one steps out of a house into the street.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“he tried to design his life in such a way that no woman could move in with a suitcase” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Memory cannot be understood, either, without a mathematical approach. The fundamental given is the ratio between the amount of time in the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“His connection to his life was that of a sculptor to his statue or a novelist to his novel. It is an… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“we live everything as it comes, without warning , like an actor going on cold. and what can life be worth if… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The termites of reduction have always gnawed away at life: even the greatest love ends up as a skeleton of feeble memories.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“They not only offered the possibility of an imaginary escape from a life she found unsatisfying; they also had a meaning for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fullfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“our day-to-day life is bombarded with fortuities or, to be more precise, with the accidental meetings of people and events we call… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“It is wrong, then, to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences (like the meeting of Anna, Vronsky, the railway… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“All the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be… — 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
“In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I sometimes have the feeling that her entire life was merely a continuation of her mother's, much as the course of a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the realm of human possibilities, everything… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“In spite of their love, they had made each other's life a hell. The fact that they loved each other was merely… — 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
