Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered over the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia, the assassination of Allende drowned out… — 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
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Remembering our past, carrying it around with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Friendship is indispensable to man for the proper function of his memory. Remembering our past, carrying it with us always, may be… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“That’s another enigma about memory, more basic than all the rest: do recollections have some measurable temporal volume? do they unfold over… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“When I described Madame de T's night, I recalled the well-known equation from one of the first chapters of the textbook of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Today history is no more than a thin thread of the remembered stretching over an ocean of the forgotten, but time moves… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“(existential mathematics...) the degree of slowness is directly proportional to the intensity of memory; the degree of speed is directly proportional to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30) — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“We will never cease our critique of those persons who distort the past, rewrite it, falsify it, who exaggerate the importance of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The stronger their nostalgia, the emptier of recollections it becomes.” — Milan kundera Copy Share Image
I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Rubens discovered a peculiar thing: memory does not make films, it makes photographs. What he recalled from any of the women were… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting. A man is walking down the street. At a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting. — 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
“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
“He knew very well that his memory detested him, that it did nothing but slander him; therefore he tried not to believe… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Memory cannot be understood, either, without a mathematical approach. The fundamental given is the ratio between the amount of time in the… — 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
