“Anyone who starts doubting details will end by doubting life itself.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Believe me, nothing is more beautiful than to carry out crazy ideas. I'd like my whole life to be one single crazy… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship?… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“To where," added Leroy, "resides the answer to your question: why are we living? what is essential in life?" He looked hard… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“extremes mean borders beyond which life ends…and a passion for extremism is a veiled longing for death.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The brevity of his life makes the sky a dark lid against which he will forever crack his head, to fall back… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“What troubled her so, she thinks, is the dream's effect of nullifying the present. For she is passionately attached to her present;… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There are metaphysical problems, problems of human existence, that philosophy has never known how to grasp in all their concreteness and that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
From the top of the staircase she sees the London train, modern and elegant, and she tells herself again: Whether it's good… — 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
