Milan Kundera quotes - page 6

I have a strong will to love you for eternity. (Milan Kundera)
It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth. View quote
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The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other. View quote
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A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence. View quote
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I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them. View quote
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Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles. View quote
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[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory. View quote
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Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously. View quote
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The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting. View quote
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Love is a continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love. View quote
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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)
Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love. View quote
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The purpose of the poetry is not to dazzle us with an astonishing thought, but to make one moment of existence unforgettable and worthy of unbearable nostalgia. View quote
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The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal. View quote
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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 the cup. View quote
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She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman. View quote
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The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented. View quote
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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. View quote
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For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake. View quote
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If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders. View quote
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Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion. (Milan Kundera)
It is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life of a dimension of beauty. View quote
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It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made. View quote
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The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order. View quote
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But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything. View quote
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