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
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
Man can only be certain about the present moment. But is that quite true either? Can he really know the present? Is… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“People meet in the course of life, they talk together, they discuss, they quarrel, without realizing that they're talking to one another… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The feeling, the irrepressible yearning to return, suddenly reveals to her the existence of the past, the power of the past, of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“They talk on about death, about boredom, they drink wine, they laugh, they have a good time, they are happy.” — 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
“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
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
Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“When the Comrades classified my conduct and my smile as intellectual (another notorious pejorative of the times), I actually came to believe… — 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
“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
We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous… — 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
“At what exact moment did the real turn into the unreal, reality into reverie? Where was the border? Where is the border?” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to… — 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
Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Radio... force-feeds us music... everywhere and all the time... sewage-water music in which music is dying. — 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
“If every second of our lives recurs an infinite number of times, we are nailed to eternity as Jesus was nailed to… — 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
The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man 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
