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Milan Kundera Quote: “The eye the point where a person’s identity is concentrated.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect someday to suffer vertigo.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “But is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us. We read its message much as gypsies read the images made by coffee grounds at the bottom of a cup.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “El amor es el deseo de encontrar a la mitad perdida de nosotros mismos.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “God has been kind to dogs in no putting a sense of beauty into their heads.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “If I hadn’t met you, I’d certainly have fallen in love with him.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “Too much faith is the worst ally.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “Beauty has long since disappeared. It has slipped beneath the surface of the noise, the noise of words, sunk deep as Atlantis. The only thing left of it is the word, whose meaning loses clarity from year to year.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “Unintentional beauty. Another way of putting it might be ‘beauty by mistake’. Before beauty disappears entirely from the earth, it will go on existing for a while by mistake. Beauty by mistake – the final phase in the history of beauty.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “When young people’s education is at stake, compromise is crime.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “Human lives are conmposed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of an individual’s life.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “When someone is young, he is not capable of conceiving of time as a circle, but thinks of it as a road leading forward to ever-new horizons; he does not yet sense that his life contains just a single theme; he will come to realise it only when his life begins to enact its first variations.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “Living, there is no happiness in that. Living: carrying one’s painful self through the world. But being, being is happiness. Being: Becoming a fountain, a fountain on which the universe falls like warm rain.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “We will never remember anything by sitting in one place waiting for the memories to come back to us of their own accord! Memories are scattered all over the world. We must travel if we want to find them and flush them from their hiding places!”
Milan Kundera Quote: “Delante hay una mentira comprensible y tras ella reluce una verdad incomprensible.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us. Sabina was unaware of the goal that lay behind her longing to betray. The unbearable lightness of being – was that the goal?”
Milan Kundera Quote: “I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn’t know who I was or wanted to be.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “Because love means renouncing strength.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “Love is by definition an unmerited gift; being loved without meriting it is the very proof of real love.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “No matter how brutal life becomes, peace always reigns in the cemeteries... When she felt low, she would get into the car, leave Prague far behind, and walk through one or another of the country cemeteries she loved so well. Against a backdrop of blue hills, they were as beautiful as a lullaby.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “In death, Franz at last belonged to his wife. He belonged to her as he had never belonged to her before. Marie-Claude took care of everything: she saw to the funeral, sent out announcements, bought the wreaths, and had a black dress made – a wedding dress, in reality. Yes, a husband’s funeral is a wife’s true wedding! The climax of her life’s work! The reward of her sufferings!”
Milan Kundera Quote: “The very beginning of Genesis tells us that God created man in order to give him dominion over fish and fowl and all creatures. Of course, Genesis was written by a man, not a horse.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “Abroad, she discovered that the transformation of music into noise was a planetary process by which mankind was entering the historical phase of total ugliness. The total ugliness to come had made itself felt first as omnipresent acoustical ugliness: cars, motorcycles, electric guitars, drills, loudspeakers, sirens. The omnipresence of visual ugliness would soon follow.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “The only person who had ever really interrogated her was her husband, and that was because love is a constant interrogation.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “Chi tende continuamente verso l’alto deve aspettarsi, prima o poi, di essere colto dalla vertigine.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “People meet in the course of life, they talk together, they discuss, they quarrel, without realizing that they’re talking to one another across a distance, each from an observation post standing in a different place in time.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “Yes, the essence of every love is a child, and it makes no difference at all whether it has ever actually been conceived or born. In the algebra of love a child is the symbol of the magical sum of two beings.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It differentiated her from the others.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “You think that just because it’s already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “Optimism is the opium of the people.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “Yes, it’s a well-known fact about you: you’re like death, you take everything.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “The cemetery was vanity transmogrified into stone. Instead of growing more sensible in death, the inhabitants of the cemetery were sillier than they had been in life.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “To cover his tracks and mask his erotic withdrawal, he took pleasure in good-naturedly dirty stories and mildly ambiguous allusions, all delivered loudly and with laughter. The mother was his best ally, ever quick to support him with smutty remarks that she would pronounce in some exaggerated, parodic manner, and in her puerile English. Listening to the two of them, Irena got the sense that eroticism had once and for all turned into childish clowning.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “Culture is perishing in overproduction, in an avalanche of words, in the madness of quantity.”
Milan Kundera Quote: “She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn’t possibly hurt her.”
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