Milan Kundera Quotes

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• At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.
• Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.
• Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.
• No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.
• The eye the point where a person's identity is concentrated.
• Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great…
• When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.
• Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back.
• Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent,
• Since the insignificance of all things is our lot, we should not bear it as an affliction but learn to enjoy it.
• Bacon's portraits are an interrogation on the limits of the self. Up to what degree of distortion does an individual still remain himself? To what…
• We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.
• All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.
• No one can get really drunk on a novel or a painting, but who can help getting drunk on Reethoven's Ninth, Rartok's Sonata for Two…
• Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.
• The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern.
• The important thing is to abide by the rule of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again,…
• The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a…
• Business only has two functions - innovation and marketing.
• Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.

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