Milan Kundera Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.

  Milan Kundera

  Pleasure, Ambiguity, Greater

• ...people don't respect the morning. An alarm clock violently wakes them up, shatters their sleep like the blow of an ax, and they immediately surrender themselves to deadly haste. Can you tell me what kind of day can follow a beginning of such violence? What happens to people whose alarm clock daily gives them a small electric shock? Each day they become more used to violence and less used to pleasure.

  Milan Kundera

  Morning, Sleep, Blow

• This was exactly what the girl had most dreaded all her life and had scrupulously avoided until now: lovemaking without emotion or love. She knew that she had crossed the forbidden boundary, but she proceeded across it without objections and as a full participant; only somewhere, far off in a corner of her consciousness, did she feel horror at the thought that she had never known such pleasure, never so much pleasure as at this moment--beyond that boundary.

  Milan Kundera

  Girl, Emotion, Consciousness

• People derived too much pleasure from seeing their fellow man morally humiliated to spoil that pleasure by hearing out an explanation.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, People, Fellow Man

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