Quotes by Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

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Oh lovers! be careful in those dangerous first days! once you've brought breakfast in bed you'll have to bring it foreve — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love. — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deaf — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the fi — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for childr — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Encouraged by her parents’ applause, the girl went on: “Do you think we take off our tops to give you pleasure? We do it — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautif — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Because misogynists are the best of men.” All the poets reacted to these words with hooting. Boccaccio was forced to rai — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The first step in liquidating a people,' said Hubl, 'is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal. — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
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 — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
They were ready to sell people a future in exchange for their past... They wanted to compel him to cast his life away an — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
She wants to have her notebooks so that the flimsy framework of events, as she has constructed them in her school notebo — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
At a time when history made its way slowly, the few events were easily remembered and woven into a backdrop, known to ev — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
We will never remember anything by sitting in one place waiting for the memories to come back to us of their own accord! — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
[mother] belonged to a realm of other creatures: smaller, lighter, more easily blown away. — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
(...) the woman we love ought to swim as slowly as we do, she ought to have no past of her own to look back on happily. — Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting