“He who gives himself up like a prisoner of war must give up his weapons as well. And deprived in advance of… — 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
The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
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
“... he realized that the path of love, which Bertlef had suggested, was closed to him; it was the path of saints,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“It is completely selfless love: Tereza did not want anything of Karenin; She did not ever ask him to love her back.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance. — 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
given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Attaching love to sex is one of the most bizarre ideas the Creator ever had. — 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
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
“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
“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
If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once youve brought breakfast in bed youll have to bring it forever, unless… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“She refused at first, saying it would make a mockery of their love. She loved him too much to admit that what… — 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
...he took a look at the blond girl's eyes and knew that he must not take part in the rigged game in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory” — 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
