“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
He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory. — 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . .… — 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“[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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera Copy Share
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
“Our lives may be separate, but they run in the same direction, like parallel lines.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“Os extremos delimitam a fronteira para além da qual a vida termina, e a paixão pelo extremismo, tanto em arte como em política, é… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by… — Milan Kundera Copy Share
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. — Milan Kundera Copy Share
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