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
“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
Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made… — 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
“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
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
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
There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely.… — 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
“He was repelled by the pettiness that reduced life to mere existence and that turned men into half-men. He wanted to lay… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“This symmetrical composition- the same motif appears at the beginning and at the end- may seem quite 'novelistic' to you, and I… — 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
“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
“When we are thrust out into the world just as we are, we first have to identify with that particular throw of… — 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 future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I never forgot that, because, though I was only a child, something seemed to become clear to me: this is existence as… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Even at the age of eight she would fall asleep by pressing one hand into the other and making believe she was… — 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
“Human lives are conmposed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which… — 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
“A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that… — 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
“Putting it negatively, the myth of eternal return states that a life which disappears once and for all, which does not return,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“And it isn't enough for us to identify with our selves, it is necessary to do so passionately, to the point of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“If rejection and priviledge are one and the same, if there is no difference between the sublime and the paltry, if Son… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming… — 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
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
“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
“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
“It takes so little, so infinitely little, for someone to find himself on the other side of the border, where everything -… — 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
“Mesmerized, all she can do is watch this piece of her life move off; all she can do is watch it and… — 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
“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
In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The woman he had loved most (he was thirty at the time) would tell him (he was nearly in despair when he… — 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
“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
“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
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera Copy Share
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
“Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“Os extremos delimitam a fronteira para além da qual a vida termina, e a paixão pelo extremismo, tanto em arte como em política, é… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. — Milan Kundera Copy Share
