Milan Kundera Quotes

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• I have no mission. No one has.
• You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
• Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.
• There is no perfection only life
• People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone.…
• Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute.…
• Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness…
• The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.
• A single metaphor can give birth to love.
• Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it forever, unless you want to…
• Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
• Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.
• We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in…
• In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
• The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are…
• A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you…
• He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his…
• By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, "it," he paved the way for other words, words that would…
• He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking…
• The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

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