“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
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
“Once upon a time I too thought that the future was the only competent judge of our works and actions. Later on… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The woman he had loved most (he was thirty at the time) would tell him (he was nearly in despair when he… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realise what… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“A long time ago, man would listen in amazement to the sound of regular beats in his chest, never suspecting what they… — 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
When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“There was nothing to be done. From then on, there were flowers waiting for me every time we met, and in the… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“But though predictions may be wrong, they are right about the people who voice them, not about their future but about their… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Tereza tried to see herself through her body. That is why, from girlhood on, she would stand before the mirror so often.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
This is the real and the only reason for friendship: to provide a mirror so the other person can contemplate his image… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“It was time laid bare, time in and of itself, time at its most basic and primal, and it forced me to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing. — 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
“What he yearned for at that moment, vaguely but with all his might, was unbounded music, absolute sound, a pleasant and happy… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The pressure to make public retractions of past statements - there's something medieval about it. What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract'… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“They were ready to sell people a future in exchange for their past... They wanted to compel him to cast his life… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Man passes through the present with his eyes blindfolded. He is permitted merely to sense and guess at what he is actually… — 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
