But then he told himself: What does it really mean to be useful? Today's world, just as it is, contains the sum… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a… — 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
What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine… — 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
People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Most people willingly deceive themselves with a doubly false faith; they believe in eternal memory (of men, things, deeds, peoples) and in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
But deep down she said to herself, Franz maybe strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Graphomania (a mania for writing books) inevitably takes on epidemic proportions when a society develops to the point of creating three basic… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
If hatred strikes you, if you get accused, thrown to the lions, you can expect one of two reactions from people who… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and… — 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
