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Milan Kundera Quotes

... he took a look at the blond girl’s eyes and knew that he must not take part in the rigged game in which the ephemeral passes for the eternal and the small for the big, that he must not take part in the rigged game called love Picture Quote #1

The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul Picture Quote #1

Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion Picture Quote #1

The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme Picture Quote #1

For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought Picture Quote #1

She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order Picture Quote #1

Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change Picture Quote #1

She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn’t possibly hurt her Picture Quote #1

Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short Picture Quote #1

I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics Picture Quote #1

When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed Picture Quote #1

Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry Picture Quote #1

The more vast the amount of time we’ve left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film Picture Quote #1

For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values Picture Quote #1

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Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness Picture Quote #1

I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

To ensure that the self doesn’t shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends Picture Quote #1

Isn’t beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does nothing worse than incite its fans to urinate in all innocence, to gain weight in all frankness? Picture Quote #1

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... he took a look at the blond girl’s eyes and knew that he must not take part in the rigged game in which the ephemeral passes for the eternal and the small for the big, that he must not take part in the rigged game called love (Milan Kundera Quotes) The body was a cage, and inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought and marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been accounted for, was the soul (Milan Kundera Quotes) Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion (Milan Kundera Quotes) The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme (Milan Kundera Quotes) For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought (Milan Kundera Quotes) She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content. Happiness filled the space of sadness (Milan Kundera Quotes) 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 Quotes) The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order (Milan Kundera Quotes) Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change (Milan Kundera Quotes) She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn’t possibly hurt her (Milan Kundera Quotes) Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short (Milan Kundera Quotes) I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them (Milan Kundera Quotes) 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 (Milan Kundera Quotes) Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics (Milan Kundera Quotes) When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. Now the horizon is empty: the view has changed (Milan Kundera Quotes) Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry (Milan Kundera Quotes) The more vast the amount of time we’ve left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it (Milan Kundera Quotes) 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 Quotes) And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film (Milan Kundera Quotes) For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability (Milan Kundera Quotes) 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 (Milan Kundera Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values (Milan Kundera Quotes) 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 Quotes) I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails (Milan Kundera Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 (Milan Kundera Quotes) To ensure that the self doesn’t shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends (Milan Kundera Quotes) Isn’t beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does nothing worse than incite its fans to urinate in all innocence, to gain weight in all frankness? (Milan Kundera Quotes)

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