For everyone is pained by the thought of disappearing, unheard and unseen, into an indifferent universe, and because of that everyone wants,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him. — 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
He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . .… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Memory cannot be understood, either, without a mathematical approach. The fundamental given is the ratio between the amount of time in the… — 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
Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion.… — 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
“Then came time for her to marry. She had nine suitors. They all knelt round her in a circle. Standing in the… — 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
“If in the past people would listen to music out of love for music, nowadays it roars everywhere and all the time,… — 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
“What could I say? Maybe this: the man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present instant of his flight;… — 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
“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 more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Until that time, her betrayals had filled her with excitement and joy, because they opened up new paths to new adventures of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“What troubled her so, she thinks, is the dream's effect of nullifying the present. For she is passionately attached to her present;… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“No nation has been on earth since the beginning of time and the very concept of nationhood is pretty recent. Despite that,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory. — 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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