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I have a strong will to love you for eternity.
— Milan Kundera
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
— Milan Kundera
Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends ... and a passion for extremism is a veiled longing for death.
— Milan Kundera
Not only have people stopped trying to be attractive when they are out among other people, but they are no longer even trying not to look ugly!
— Milan Kundera
She felt happy in Paris, happier than here, but only Prague held her by a secret bond of beauty.
— Milan Kundera
Immortality is a ridiculous illusion, an empty word, a butterfly net chasing the wind.
— Milan Kundera
Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.
— Milan Kundera
Necessity, weight, and value are three concepts inextricably bound: only necessity is heavy, and only what is heavy has value.
— 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
Certainty. Life's last and kindest gift.
— Milan Kundera
Love is poetry, poetry is love
— 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
The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.
— Milan Kundera
Even painful memories are ties that bind.
— Milan Kundera
What he did succeed in seeing behind him in his mind's eye was tiny, compressed like a closed accordion.
— Milan Kundera
The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
— Milan Kundera
The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.
— Milan Kundera
Her image of it came entirely from what she had heard. Or read. Or received unconsciously from distant ancestors. And yet it lived within her.
— Milan Kundera
That is the secret of poetry. We burn in the woman we adore, we burn in the thought we espouse, we burn in the landscape that moves us
— Milan Kundera
In Czech, according to Milan Kundera, litost is a state of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery.
— Rabih Alameddine
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
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Unlike the puerile loyalty to a conviction, loyalty to a friend is a virtue - perhaps the only virtue, the last remaining one.
— Milan Kundera
Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.
— Milan Kundera
Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
— 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
Is not parody the eternal lot of man?
— Milan Kundera
The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
— Milan Kundera
I have become so pessimistic that these days I'd even choose the truth over friendship.
— Milan Kundera
Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.
— Milan Kundera
The moment Kafka attracts more attenetion than Joseph K., Kafka's posthumous death begins.
— Milan Kundera
Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.
— Milan Kundera
Jealousy is like a raging toothache. One cannot do anything when one is jealous, not even sit down. Once can only come and go. Back and forth.
— Milan Kundera
She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.
— Milan Kundera
All lovers unconsciously establish their own rules of the game, which from the outset admit of no transgression.
— Milan Kundera
Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
— Milan Kundera
not even one's own pain weigh so heavy as the pain one feels with someone , for someone
— Milan Kundera
Franz could not accept that the fact that the glory of the Grand March was equal to the comic vanity of its marchers.
— Milan Kundera
His kindness tore at her heartstrings...
— Milan Kundera
The crematory fire is the only way our bodies can escape them. It's the absolute death.
— Milan Kundera
It was as though she has found refuge inside a shell and the only sound she could hear was the sea of an inimical world.
— Milan Kundera
By writing books, a man turns into a universe.
— Milan Kundera
Tenderness is the attempt to create a tiny artificial space in which it is mutually agreed that each will treat the other like a child.
— Milan Kundera
Not every woman was worthy of being called a woman.
— Milan Kundera
In the kingdom of kitsch you would be a monster
— Milan Kundera
But I'm not dead!" Tereza cried. "I can still feel!""So can we," the corpses laughed. — Milan Kundera
At what exact moment did the real turn into the unreal, reality into reverie? Where was the border? Where is the border?
— Milan Kundera
Because human lives are composed in precisely such a fashion. They are composed like musicpg 52 — Milan Kundera
A sudden happiness, a feeling of bliss, the joy that came of freedom and a new life - these were the gifts she had left him.
— Milan Kundera
It takes a very great intelligence to breathe logical meaning into meaningless ideas.
— Milan Kundera
They were happy not in spite of their sadness but thanks to it.
— Milan Kundera
Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
— Milan Kundera
In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.
— 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
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[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
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
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
— 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
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
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
Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.
— Milan Kundera
If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him.
— Milan Kundera
Internal imperatives are all the more powerful and therefore all the more of an inducement to revolt.
— Milan Kundera
Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.
— Milan Kundera
The less her life resembled that sweetest of dreams, the more sensitive she was to its magic.
— Milan Kundera
But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.
— Milan Kundera
But how to define the eroticism of a man (or an era) that sees female seductive power as centered in the middle of the body, in the navel?
— Milan Kundera
Men grow old, the end draws near, each moment becomes more and more valuable, and there is no time to waste over recollections.
— Milan Kundera
Forgive me," he went on. "For a long time I have had the peculiar habit of not arriving but appearing.
— Milan Kundera
Each interpreted the other's words in his own way, and the lived in perfect harmony, the perfect solidarity of perfect Mutual misunderstanding.
— Milan Kundera
There is nothing harder to explain than humor.
— Milan Kundera
After all, when you give someone a present, you want to do so out of love, you want to give your friend a piece of heart!
— Milan Kundera
Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent,
— Milan Kundera
I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.
— Milan Kundera
