Milan Kundera

“Lucie had been many things to me: a child, a source of comfort, a balm, an escape from myself; she was literaly…

— Milan Kundera

“It was vertigo. A heady, insuperable longing to fall. We might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. Aware of his…

— Milan Kundera

“What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life…

— Milan Kundera

A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a…

— Milan Kundera

Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.

— Milan Kundera

“A whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing”

— Milan Kundera

“Mislim, dakle postojim je rečenica intelektualca koji potcjenjuje zubobolju. Osjećam, dakle postojim mnogo je šire primjenjiva istina i tiče se svega živog.…

— Milan Kundera

“The novel has accompanied man uninterruptedly and faithfully since the beginning of the Modern Era. It was then that the "passion to…

— Milan Kundera

“no puedo odiarlos porque nada me une a ellos; no tengo nada que ver con ellos.”

— Milan Kundera

“How she wished she could learn lightness!”

— Milan Kundera

What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine…

— Milan Kundera

“the less her life resembled that sweetest of dreams, the more sensitive she was to its magic.”

— Milan Kundera

Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day…

— Milan Kundera

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

— Milan Kundera

Every love relationship rests on an unwritten agreement unthinkingly concluded by the lovers in the first weeks of their love. They are…

— Milan Kundera

“Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.”

— Milan Kundera

“...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.”

— Milan Kundera

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

“In modern times an idea can be refuted, yes, but not retracted”

— Milan Kundera

“He was repelled by the pettiness that reduced life to mere existence and that turned men into half-men. He wanted to lay…

— Milan Kundera

“Metaphors are dangerous, Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.”

— Milan Kundera

“Does he love me?Does he love anyone more than me?Does he love me more than I love him?Perhap sall the questions we…

— Milan Kundera

Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what…

— Milan Kundera

“Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something from our…

— Milan Kundera

“Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it…

— Milan Kundera