1,075 Quotes by Milan Kundera

Between the whores' world and God's world, like a river dividing two empires, stretches an intense smell of urine.

I have no mission. No one has. And it's a terrific relief to realize you're free, free of all missions.

To hide and feel guilty would be the beginning of defeat

The serial number of a human specimen is the face, that accidental and unrepeatable combination of features. It reflects neither character nor soul, nor what we call the self. The face is only the serial number of a specimen

Quería comprobar si la tristeza, sobre la cual el poderoso ideólogo afirmaba que es enfermiza y perjudicial, podía darme, con su con consonancia, algún alegría (porque, en mi situación, difícilmente podía buscar la alegría en la alegría)

What we have not chosen we cannot consider either to our merit or our failure.

Scepticism does not abolish the world, it turns it into questions.

What people keep secret is the most common, the most ordinary, the most prevalent thing, the same thing everybody has: the body and its needs, its maladies, its manias - constipation, for instance, or menstruation. We ashamedly conceal these intimate matters not because they are so personal but because, on the contrary, they are so lamentably impersonal.

The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure.