Unbearable Lightness Quotes

• 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

  Love, Asking, Demand

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

  Milan Kundera

  Men, Age, Body

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" by Milan Kundera, translated by Michael Henry Heim, 1984.

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• Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.

  Milan Kundera

  Jealousy, Dog, Evil

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

  Milan Kundera

  Perfect, Want, Unbearable Lightness Of Being

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• A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

  Milan Kundera

  Unhappy Person, Unbearable, Life Is

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.

  Milan Kundera

  Sunset, Auras, Unbearable

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being", 1988.

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• Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.

  Milan Kundera

  Goal, Suffering, Unbearable

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• Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.

  Milan Kundera

  Unbearable, Metaphor, Dangerous

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• Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.

  Milan Kundera

  Mean, Use, Unbearable Lightness Of Being

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies.

  Milan Kundera

  Lying, Mean, Eye

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.

  Milan Kundera

  Flirting, Promise, Guarantees

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

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• We all need someone to look at us. We can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under . . . The fourth category, the rarest, is the category of people who live in the imaginary eyes of those who are not present. They are the dreamers.

  Milan Kundera

  Eye, People, Dreamer

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• Kitsch causes two tears to flow in quick succession. The first tear says: How nice to see children running on the grass! The second tear says: How nice to be moved, together with all mankind, by children running on the grass!

  Milan Kundera

  Running, Children, Nice

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• 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.

  Milan Kundera

  People, Want, Void

  "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting". Book by Milan Kundera, 1980.

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• Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.

  Portia de Rossi

  Love You, Healing, Helping

  Portia de Rossi (2011). “Unbearable Lightness: A Story of Loss and Gain”, p.298, Simon and Schuster

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• Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor

  Milan Kundera

  Love Is, Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Metaphor

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• Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

  Milan Kundera

  Art, Passion, Mean

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• The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

  Milan Kundera

  Past, People, Want

  The Book of Laughter and Forgetting pt. 1, sec. 17 (1980) (translation by Michael Henry Heim)

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• loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.

  Milan Kundera

  Ideas, Empires, Unbearable

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• True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.

  Milan Kundera

  Animal, Compassion, Unbearable Lightness Of Being

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say. The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.

  Milan Kundera

  Strong, Overwhelming Desire, Unbearable Lightness Of Being

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.

  Milan Kundera

  Courage, Law, Coincidence In Life

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• we might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. he is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down.

  Milan Kundera

  Fall, Men, Squares

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• 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

  Past, People, Political

  The Book of Laughter and Forgetting pt. 1, sec. 17 (1980) (translation by Michael Henry Heim)

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• You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Two, Numbers

  "Identity". Book by Milan Kundera, 1998.

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