Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone… — 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
It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.… — 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
