Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Where are all those virtues of unreason that have shaped our idea of love?” — 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
“Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other. — 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
“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
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
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her… — 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
“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
“Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but… — 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
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
“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 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
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
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
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
“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
“Then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they… — 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
“All this time he was sitting up in bed and looking at the woman who was lying beside him and holding his… — 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
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
“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
“It seemed to me an error in reasoning for a man to isolate a woman he loves from all the circumstances in… — 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
“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
Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry. — 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
“...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.” — 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
“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
“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
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera Copy Share
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
“Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“Os extremos delimitam a fronteira para além da qual a vida termina, e a paixão pelo extremismo, tanto em arte como em política, é… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. — Milan Kundera Copy Share
