Milan Kundera Quotes - Page 5

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• We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave childhood without knowing what youth is, we marry without knowing what it is to be married, and even when we enter old age, we don't know what it is we're heading for: the old are innocent children innocent of thier old age. In that sense, man's world is the planet of inexperience.

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  Children, Men, Knowing

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• Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs.

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  Dream, Needs, Imagine

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• I have no mission. No one has.

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  Missions

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• Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.

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  Crazy, Love Is, Crazy Love

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• The basis of the self is not thought but suffering, which is the most fundamental of all feelings. While it suffers, not even a cat can doubt its unique and uninterchangeable self. In intense suffering the world disappears and each of us is alone with his self. Suffering is the university of ego-centrism.

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  Cat, Unique, Self

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• Beauty has long since disappeared. It has slipped beneath the surface of the noise, the noise of words, sunk deep as Atlantis. The only thing left of it is the word, whose meaning loses clarity from year to year.

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  Years, Long, Noise

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• What I need most of all is certainty.

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  Needs, Certainty

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• For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.

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  Beautiful, Mistake, Men

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• In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of beauty.

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  Beauty, Beautiful, Mean

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• Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.

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  Memories, Children, Past

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• The psychological and physiological mechanism of love is so complex that at a certain period in his life a young man must concentrate all his energy on coming to grips with it, and in this way he misses the actual content of the love: the woman he loves. (In this he is much like a young violinist who cannot concentrate on the emotional content of a piece until the technique required to play it comes automatically.)

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  Love Is, Men, Emotional

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• Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendship is not a bit less fickle than love and it is impossible to build anything on it. Self-love? I wish it were possible.

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  Suicide, Self, Guarantees That

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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• When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.

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  Writing, Successful, Boys

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• My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.

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  Ambition, Form, Lifelong

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• The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.

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  Music, Guitar, Idiocy

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• How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more.

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  Suffering, Glimpse, Nostalgia

  "Identity". Book by Milan Kundera, 1997.

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• In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.

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  Home, Mind, Unbearable

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". 1988.

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• Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)

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  Art, Logic, Source

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• The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.

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  Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Claims, Partners

  "Nesnesitelna lehkost byti (The Unbearable Lightness of Being)". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• I am not worthy of my suffering. A great sentence. It suggests not only that suffering is the basis of the self, its sole indubitable ontological proof, but also that it is the one feeling most worthy of respect; the value of all values.

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  Self, Feelings, Suffering

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• Laughing deeply is living deeply.

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  Happiness, Laughing

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• ...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.

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  Tragedy, Mazes, Shells

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• Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.

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  Love Is, Men, Voice

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• Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate a single person in an intense beam of light, keeping the multitude of others in total darkness.

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  Light, Darkness, Intense

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• Ah, ladies and gentlemen, a man lives a sad life when he cannot take anything or anyone seriously.

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  Men, Sad Life, Gentleman

  Milan Kundera (1974). “Laughable Loves”

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