Milan Kundera Quotes

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• we might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to…
• Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it…
• From tender youth we are told by father and teacher that betrayal is the most heinous offence imaginable. But what is betrayal?Â…Betrayal means breaking ranks…
• He Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.
• She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything,…
• Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.
• And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city,…
• When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
• she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for…
• it is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such…
• loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.
• And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
• Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.
• 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. "Well,…
• But deep down she said to herself, Franz maybe strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with,…
• The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes…
• If hatred strikes you, if you get accused, thrown to the lions, you can expect one of two reactions from people who know you: some…
• There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments…
• Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt…
• In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood

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