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Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind. — Milan Kundera

Indeed, all he remembers are situations that make him displeased with himself. — Milan Kundera

Because to live in a world in which no one is forgiven, where all are irredeemable, is the same as living in hell. — Milan Kundera

I have said before that metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. — Milan Kundera

As you live out your desolation, you can be either unhappy or happy. Having that choice is what constitutes your freedom. — Milan Kundera

A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster. — Milan Kundera

Even painful memories are ties that bind. — Milan Kundera

The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man. — Milan Kundera

Elisabeth, can't you imagine that you could love someone so terribly that just because of it you couldn't go to bed with him? — Milan Kundera

The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic. — Milan Kundera

No matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reign in the cemetery. — Milan Kundera

And even if she did find them ugly, she would never say so, because flattery had long since become second nature to her — Milan Kundera

To take seriously something so unserious means to lose all one's own seriousness — Milan Kundera

Is not parody the eternal lot of man? — Milan Kundera

I have become so pessimistic that these days I'd even choose the truth over friendship. — Milan Kundera

[M]an has always harbored the desire to rewrite his own biography, to change the past, to wipe out tracks, both his own and other's. (p.130) — Milan Kundera

It is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities" -- Pretty Wittgenstein like. — Milan Kundera

In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. — Milan Kundera

In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine. — Milan Kundera

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. — Milan Kundera

The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries. — Milan Kundera

But I'm not dead!" Tereza cried. "I can still feel!"
"So can we," the corpses laughed. — Milan Kundera

Art must always stand guard against stirring emotions that lie outside the aesthetic: sexual arousal, terror, disgust, shock. — Milan Kundera

Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs. — Milan Kundera

The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. — Milan Kundera

He goes on reading, and remembers nothing. So what has this stranger come to tell him? To remind him that he used to live here under Josef's name? — Milan Kundera

Broch is an inspiration to us, not only because of what he accomplished, but also because of all that he aimed at and could not attain. — Milan Kundera

Every change of scene requires new expositions, descriptions, explanations. — Milan Kundera

When a person is clubbed violently on the head, he collapses and stops breathing. Some day, he will stop breathing anyway. — Milan Kundera

A scarf from her dress works free and floats behind her the way memories float behind the dead. — Milan Kundera

A whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing — Milan Kundera

Physical love is unthinkable without violence. — Milan Kundera

The beauty of New York is unintentional; it arose independent of human design, like a stalagmite cavern. — Milan Kundera

Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness. — Milan Kundera