Milan Kundera Quotes

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• In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of crudity surrounding her:…
• What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes…
• Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no…
• There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
• Through the air floated only important words, and Flajsman said to himself that love has but one true measure, and that is death. At the…
• Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.
• Those boobs of yours are ubiquitous - like God!
• Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us back into our…
• Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.
• The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of…
• Yes, if you're looking for infinity, just close your eyes!
• The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.
• Because beyond their practical function, all gestures have a meaning that exceeds the intention of those who make them; when people in bathing suits fling…
• No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise.…
• Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against…
• what's the matter?" he asked "nothing" "what do you want me to do for you?" "i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty…
• nothing yet. I've been waiting." "for what?" she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him.
• If I had two lives, in one life I could invite her to stay at my place, and in the second life I could kick…
• She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was…
• Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and…

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