Quotes by Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love do — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the hal — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
I want you to be weak. As weak as I am. — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Physical love is unthinkable without violence. — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Does he love me? Does he love anyone more than me? Does he love me more than I love him? Perhaps all the questions we as — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man. — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the momen — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissim — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and shit and thus came t — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they wo — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
When graves are covered with stones, the dead can no longer get out. But the dead can’t go out anyway! What difference d — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself? — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Ver — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
In Tereza’s eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood. For she had but a single weapon against the world of c — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with cleanunderwear—instead of being allowed to purs — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Kitsch is the aesthetic ideal of all politicians and all political parties and movements. Those of us who live in a soci — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being