Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end." Love is a battle?"… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“and I felt happy inside these songs (...) where sorrow is not lightness, laughter is not grimace, love is not laughable, and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Her kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, "it," he paved the way for other words,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Any schoolboy can do experiments in the physics laboratory to test various scientific hypothesis. But man, because he has only one life… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Every one of my novels could be entitled The Unbearable Lightness of Being or The Joke or Laughable Loves; the titles are… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Man cannot do without feelings, but the moment they are considered values in themselves, criteria of truth, justifications for kinds of behavior,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“In the middle of the night, he woke up and realized to his surprise that he had been having one erotic dream… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Every love relationship rests on an unwritten agreement unthinkingly concluded by the lovers in the first weeks of their love. They are… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.” — 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
“Metaphors are dangerous, Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Does he love me?Does he love anyone more than me?Does he love me more than I love him?Perhap sall the questions we… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something from our… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into… — 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
