“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
What I love in a woman is not what she is in and for herself, but the side of herself she turns… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The termites of reduction have always gnawed away at life: even the greatest love ends up as a skeleton of feeble memories.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Love begins with a metaphor. Love begins at a point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“He looked at her and tried to discover behind her lascivious expression the familiar features that he loved tenderly. It was as… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The old duality of body and soul has become shrouded in scientific terminology, and we can laugh at it as merely an… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In eroticism as dance: one of the partners is always charged with leading the other. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“If in the past people would listen to music out of love for music, nowadays it roars everywhere and all the time,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Where are all those virtues of unreason that have shaped our idea of love?” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“In spite of their love, they had made each other's life a hell. The fact that they loved each other was merely… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The engineer’s ready capitulation, however, did not hide from the poet’s mother the sad realization that the adventure into which she had… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Let us define our terms. A woman who writes her lover four letters a day is not a graphomaniac, she is simply… — 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
Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“However much he may tell her he loves her and thinks her beautiful, his loving gaze could never console her. Because the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Leroy's reasoning is dry as a razor, and Chantal agrees: love as an exaltation of two individuals, love as fidelity, passionate attachment… — 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
