1,075 Quotes by Milan Kundera

Yes, it’s a well-known fact about you: you’re like death, you take everything.

By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, “it,” he paved the way for other words, words that would reflect physical love as in a set of mirrors.

Too much faith is the worst ally.

Human lives are conmposed like music. Guided by his sense of beauty, an individual transforms a fortuitous occurrence into a motif, which then assumes a permanent place in the composition of an individual’s life.

And he reflected that one cannot completely become his own self until one is completely among others.

You think that just because it’s already happened, the past is finished and unchangeable? Oh no, the past is cloaked in multicolored taffeta and every time we look at it we see a different hue.

Here he was, doing things he didn’t care a damn about, and enjoying it.

He was repelled by the pettiness that reduced life to mere existence and that turned men into half-men. He wanted to lay his life on a balance, the other side of which was weighted with death. He wanted to make his every action, every day, yes, every hour and minute worthy of being measured against the ultimate, which is death.

Co-incidencia significa que dos acontecimientos inesperados ocurren al mismo tiempo, que se encuentran.