100 Quotes About Milan-kundera

The physical contact with people who struck and trampled and killed one another seemed far worse to him than a solitary death in the purity of the waters.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting

Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.

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…

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.

How goodness heightens beauty!

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

The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.