The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally… — 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
She had come to him to escape her mother's world, a world where all bodies were equal. She had come to him… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
His overriding life necessity was not love, it was his profession…He had come to medicine not by coincidence or calculation but by… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Aesthetic racism is almost always a sign of inexperience. Those who have not made their way far enough into the world of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a… — 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
We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women? — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
When a private talk over a bottle of wine is broadcast on the radio, what can it mean but that the world… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming… — 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
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The worst thing is not that the world is unfree, but that people have unlearned their liberty. — 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
“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
