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Milan Kundera Quotes

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“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Alone, Isolation, beauty, Beautiful, Relationships, one perfect sentence, 107 Of The Greatest Single Sentences In Literature, Perfect Sentences
“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 glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.”
— Milan Kundera, P.S. Grandma Says
Tagged: Dogs, Jealousy, Peace
“We all reject out of hand the idea that the love of our life may be something light or weightless; we presume our love is what must be, that without it our life would no longer be the same.”
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Tagged: Books, novel, Literature, Love
“Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.”
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
Tagged: Love, Relationships, Dating, romance, inspiration, Sex, reevaluate
“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.”
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
Tagged: Future, Past, History, Destruction, Interest, humanity
“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Vertigo is something other than fear of falling. It is the voice of the emptiness below us which tempts and lures us, it is the desire to fall, against which, terrified, we defend ourselves.”
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
Tagged: Fear, falling, higher, Desire, self, Emptiness, Life
“I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.”
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being: A Novel
Tagged: Weakness, strength, Relationships, Desire
“But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life! Was it simply the hysteria of a man who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it? His unconscious was so cowardly that the best partner it could choose for its little comedy was this miserable provincial waitress with practically no chance at all to enter his life!

Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love. 

 And he was distressed that in a situation where a real man would instantly have known how to act, he was vacillating and therefore depriving the most beautiful moments he had ever experienced (kneeling at her bed and thinking he would not survive her death) of their meaning.”
— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Tagged: Hysteria, Fanatic, Distress, Love, Confusion, Hesitance
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