Way Quotes by Milan Kundera

She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a…

— Milan Kundera

And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread…

— Milan Kundera

I feel a frantic desire to free myself. To start all over again and in another way.

— Milan Kundera

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits…

— Milan Kundera

People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the…

— Milan Kundera

The young man called the waiter and paid. Then he got up and said to the girl: 'We're going.' Where to?' The…

— Milan Kundera

I remember that the day I finished 'The Angels,' part three of 'The Book of Laughter and Forgetting', I was terribly proud…

— Milan Kundera

...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for…

— Milan Kundera

By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, "it," he paved the way for other words,…

— Milan Kundera

From the top of the staircase she sees the London train, modern and elegant, and she tells herself again: Whether it's good…

— Milan Kundera

The psychological and physiological mechanism of love is so complex that at a certain period in his life a young man must…

— Milan Kundera

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

Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of…

— Milan Kundera

The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought,…

— Milan Kundera

In the political jargon of those days, the word "intellectual" was an insult. It indicated someone who did not understand life and…

— Milan Kundera

...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she…

— Milan Kundera

War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be…

— Milan Kundera

At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to…

— Milan Kundera

To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first…

— Milan Kundera

While people are fairly young and the musical composition of their lives is still in its opening bars, they can go about…

— Milan Kundera

The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is…

— Milan Kundera