Every love relationship rests on an unwritten agreement unthinkingly concluded by the lovers in the first weeks of their love. They are… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What 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
Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
A great deal has been said about love at first sight; I am perfectly aware of love's retrospective tendency to make a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
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
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. — 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
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves… — 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
I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
what's the matter?" he asked "nothing" "what do you want me to do for you?" "i want you to be old. ten… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The irresistible proliferation of graphomania shows me that everyone without exception bears a potential writer within him, so that the entire human… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless… — 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
