16 beautiful quotes by Milan Kundera. Click any quote to view, download and share it as an image.
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Milan Kundera
“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Ve...
“Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”
“To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.”
“The girl was grateful to the young man for every bit of flattery; she wanted to linger for a moment in its warmth and s...
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glo...
“Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.”
“But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?”
“The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.”
“He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the ha...
“Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by la...
“Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal dea...
“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 ha...
“And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. Tha...
“Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.”
“A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make ...
“[W]e must never allow the future to collapse under the burden of memory.”
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