"Making love with a woman and sleeping with……" — Milan Kundera
"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 the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman)."
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381 Quotes by Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera has 381 quotes on this site.
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Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to…
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Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink…
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People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void…
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The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
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There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.
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Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
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War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they…
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There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the…
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He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him.
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The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.
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We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our…
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The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.
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More Copulation Quotes
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Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I told my girlfriend that a praying mantis female eats its mate after copulation. She didn't take the hint.
— Unknown Author
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It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such…
— Epictetus
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Sexual behavior in our species goes through three characteristic phases: pair formation, precopulatory activity, and copulation, usually but not always…
— Desmond Morris
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Without guilt / What is a man? An animal, isn't he? / A wolf forgiven at his meat, / A…
— Archibald MacLeish
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In general, I don't care for scenes of copulation.Certain functions of the human body are bloody private.
— William Holden
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Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy…
— Alan Moore
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Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.
— Walt Whitman
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Wit is the unexpected copulation of ideas.
— Patrick O'Brian
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Thus, in pornographic novels, action has to be limited to the copulation of clichés.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Adriana loved even the rank animal smell of the man's body, her sweat-slicked breasts and belly flattened beneath him, and…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Storytelling and copulation are the two chief forms of amusement in the South. They’re inexpensive and easy to procure.
— Robert Penn Warren
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