Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise. — 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
Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love. — 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
“...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.” — 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
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
“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
“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
Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can… — 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
But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that… — 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
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
“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 Irena’s head the alcohol plays a double role: it frees her fantasy, encourages her boldness, makes her sensual, and at the… — 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
But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in the love poetry of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Love is by definition an unmerited gift; being loved without meriting it is the very proof of real love. If a woman… — 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
A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“A person is nothing but his image. Philosophers can tell us that it doesn't matter what the world thinks of us, that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of every… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Back at home, after some prodding from Tereza, he admitted that he had been jealous watching her dance with a colleague of… — 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
“the world has become man's right and everything in it has become a right: the desire for love the right to love,… — milan kundera Copy Share Image
You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange. — 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
