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Own Quotes by Milan Kundera
- If our planet has seen some eighty billion people it is difficult to suppose hat every individual has had his or her own repertory of…
- The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.…
- All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.
- There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified…
- 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…
- We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is…
- Speed is the form of ecstasy the technical revolution has bestowed on man. As opposed to a motorcyclist, the runner is always present in his…
- The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.…
- Leroy interrupted Chantal's fantasies: "Freedom? As you live our your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your…
- He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely…
- Draw a line; draw a line that pleases you. And remember that it is not the artist's role to copy the outlines of things but…
- If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee…
- The phrase "It's absolutely the same with me, I..." seems to be an approving echo, a way of continuing the other's thought, but that is…
- A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.
- Laughter, on the other hand, " Petrarch went on, "is an explosion that tears us away from the world and throws us back into our…
- Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable
- A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too…
- This is the image from which he was born...... Characters are not born, like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence,…
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- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn