56 Quotes by Milan Kundera about Love

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    Her beauty, which struck him at the time, did not make her look younger than her age; he might sooner have said that her age made her beauty more eloquent.

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    All he knew about old age was that it a time when a person had passed his maturity; when fate had ended; when there was no longer any need to fear that terrible mystery called the future; when every love than came along was certain and final.

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    She refused at first, saying it would make a mockery of their love. She loved him too much to admit that what she thought of as unforgettable could ever be forgotten. Finally, of course, she did as he asked, but without enthusiasm. The notebooks showed it: they had many empty pages, and the entries were fragmentary.

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    Et là est l'horreur: le passé dont on se souvient est dépourvu de temps. Impossible de revivre un amour comme on relit un livre ou comme on revoit un film.

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    (...) the woman we love ought to swim as slowly as we do, she ought to have no past of her own to look back on happily. But when the illusion of absolute identity vanishes (the girl looks back happily on her past or swims faster), love becomes a permanent source of the great torment we call litost.

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    given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog...It is a completely selfless love.

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    U sjedinjavanju dvaju tuđih tijela nema ničeg dragocjenog. Možda ponekad dođe i do sjedinjavanja duša. Tisuću puta dragocjenije od toga jest, ako se tijelo stopi s vlastitom dušom i ako se zajedno prepuste istoj strasti. To se ponekad događa kad čovjek zaista voli; možda; vjerujem u to; hoću da uvijek vjerujem u to.

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    -Se divorziamo, in fondo nonn cambierà nulla!Non perderai nulla! Ti lascio tutto quello che ho!-Non è questione di quello che mi lasci - disse lei.-E allora di che?-Di amore - sorrise lei.-Di amore? - si meraviglió Franz.-L'amore è lotta - disse Marie- Claude, sempre soridendo. -Lotterò a lungo. Fino alla fine.-L'amore è lotta? Io non ho nessunissima voglia di lottare. - disse Franz e usci.

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