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And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle — it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.
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
If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enab — Milan Kundera
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
Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified s — the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.
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 hav — Milan Kundera
Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words. And suddenly he realized that all his life he had done nothing but talk, w — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Darling, my darling, don't think that I don't love you or that I didn't love you, but it's precisely because I love you — Milan Kundera, Identity
In existential mathematics that experience takes the form of two basic equations: The degree of slowness is directly pro — the degree of speed is directly proportional to the intensity of forgetting.
I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them — I have nothing in common with them.
He thought: that's certainly how it starts. One day a person puts his legs up on a bench, then night comes and he falls — Milan Kundera, Identity
For what is love if one loves a woman without knowing her? Just a decision to love? Or even an imitation? The question c — Milan Kundera
That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer's occupation. We write books — Milan Kundera
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Betrayal means breaking ranks and going off into the unknown. Sabina knew of nothing more magnificent than going off int — Milan Kundera
Dreaming is not only an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that i — Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Laughter was like an enormous trap waiting patiently in the room with them — but hidden behind a thin wall.
He took her in his arms and lifted her up. She looked at him and he noticed only now that her eyes were full of tears. H — Milan Kundera, Immortality
We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at al — Milan Kundera, Immortality
The physical contact with people who struck and trampled and killed one another seemed far worse to him than a solitary — Milan Kundera, Immortality