The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. — 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
“Y como en aquel momento no tenía nada con que obsequiar al mundo, obsequiaba a Klara. Al menos con promesas” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is… — 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
“[M]an has always harbored the desire to rewrite his own biography, to change the past, to wipe out tracks, both his own… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present... he is caught in a fragment of time cut off… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at what we are actually… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
...in our time art is encrusted with a noisy, opaque, logorrhea of theory that prevents a work from coming into direct, media… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a… — 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
“Children, you are the future,' he said, and today I realize he did not mean it the way it sounded. The reason… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Now we are longtime outcasts, flying through the emptiness of time in a straight line. Yet somewhere deep down a thin thread… — 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
“Just as someone in pain is linked by his groans to the present moment (and is entirely outside past and future), so… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“They shout that they want to shape a better future, but it's not true. The future is only an indifferent void no… — 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
“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
“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
“Having had occasion in the past to observe Communist statesmen, I saw with surprise that they were often extremely critical of the… — 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
“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
“I imagine the feelings of two people meeting again after many years. In the past they spent some time together, and therefore… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Can't you come up with something different? And therein lies the whole of mans plight.Human time does not turn in a circle;it… — 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
“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
“The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the logical sequence… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy:… — 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
Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
To die; to decide to die; that's much easier for an adolescent than for an adult. What? Doesn't death strip an adolescent… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered… — 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
You think that just because it's already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored… — 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
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