“Tomas came to this conclusion: Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Darkness attracted him as much as light. He knew that these days turning out the light before making love was considered laughable,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Through the air floated only important words, and Flajsman said to himself that love has but one true measure, and that is… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“(...) the woman we love ought to swim as slowly as we do, she ought to have no past of her own… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The psychological and physiological mechanism of love is so complex that at a certain period in his life a young man must… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“We can never establish with certainty which part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions--love, antipathy, charity, or… — 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
“Does he love me? Does he love anyone more than me? Does he love me more than I love him? Perhaps all… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“There are people who claim to love humanity, while others object that we can love only in the singular, that is, only… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I love you. Perhaps I love you very much. But probably just for this reason it would be better if we… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split them in two, and now all the halves wander the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“I have said before that metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Love is a battle" she said smiling, "And I plan on going fighting 'til the end." "Love is a battle? well, I… — milan kundera Copy Share Image
loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
...[P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all... (p.24) — 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
Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence. — 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