There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions… — 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
“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
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
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
“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
“What does it mean, anyway, to 'retract' what you've said? How can anyone state categorically that a thought he once had is… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“It was a curious game. This curiousness was evidenced, for example, in the fact that the young man, even though he himself… — 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
“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
There would seem to be nothing more obvious, more tangible and palpable than the present moment. And yet it eludes us completely.… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty. The more indifferent people are… — 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
We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Even though man himself is mortal, he can imagine neither the end of space nor of time nor of history nor of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“In times when history still moved slowly, events were few and far between and easily committed to memory. They formed a commonly… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Mesmerized, all she can do is watch this piece of her life move off; all she can do is watch it and… — 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
“(...) the woman we love ought to swim as slowly as we do, she ought to have no past of her own… — 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
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
Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed… — 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
“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
So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game. — 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
