Milan Kundera quotes - page 4

No love can survive muteness. (Milan Kundera)
Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great collective passion of our time. View quote
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A worker may be the hammer's master, but the hammer still prevails. A tool knows exactly how it is meant to be handled, while the user of the tool can only have an approximate idea. View quote
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You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange. View quote
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Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect some day to suffer vertigo. View quote
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O lovers Be careful in those dangerous first days Once youve brought breakfast in bed youll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal. View quote
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Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says How nice to see children running on the grass The second tear says How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass It is the second tear that makes kitsch kitsch. View quote
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Chance and chance alone has a message for us... Only chance can speak to us. View quote
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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. View quote
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Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all. View quote
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Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it. (Milan Kundera)
In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. View quote
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The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it. View quote
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Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs. View quote
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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. View quote
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I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches. View quote
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People who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all. View quote
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what's the matter?" he asked "nothing" "what do you want me to do for you?" "i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty years older" what she meant was: i want you to be weak. as weak as i am. (Milan Kundera)
Aren't we living in a world where heedless men only desire decapitated women? View quote
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I can't shake off the idea that after death you keep being alive. That to be dead is to live an endless nightmare. View quote
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It was the call of all those fortuities... which gave her the courage to leave home and change her fate. View quote
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Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation. View quote
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