Milan Kundera's quotes (sethmessenger.fr - Some short news to get away from it all).

#20614
Design the devil as a supporter of evil and the Angel as a good fighter, is to accept the demagoguery of the angels.

Milan Kundera
(Le Livre du rire et de l’oubli)

#20615
In politics, the world is black or white. There is no room for ambiguity, contradiction, Paradox.

Milan Kundera
(Entretien avec Antoine de Gaudemar - Février 1984)

#20616
The dream is evidence that imagine, dream which has not been, is one of the deepest human needs.

Milan Kundera
(L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être)

#20617
The unassailable right of the novelist is to rework his novel.

Milan Kundera
(Le livre du rire et de l’oubli)

#20618
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor.

Milan Kundera
(L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être)

#20619
A dead end is the place of my best inspirations.

Milan Kundera
(Risibles amours)

#20620
The novel is the result of a human illusion. The illusion of being able to understand others.

Milan Kundera
(Livre du rire et de l'oubli)

#20621
Our friends are our mirror, our memory; does anything about them, except that they occasionally whip this mirror so that we can be watching.

Milan Kundera
(L'identité)

#20622
The young man who runs after fame has no idea of what is the glory. What gives meaning to our conduct is still completely unknown.

Milan Kundera
(L’Insoutenable légèreté de l’être)

#20623
Between a woman who is convinced to be unique, and women who wore the shroud of the universal for women, there is no possible conciliation.

Milan Kundera
(La Valse aux adieux)

#20624
Man, although it is itself deadly, cannot represent nor the end of space, the end of time or the end of the story, nor the end of a people, he still lives in an illusory infinity.

Milan Kundera
(Le Livre du rire et de l’oubli)

#20625
Human time does not turn in a circle, but in a straight line. This is why man cannot be happy because happiness is desire to repeat.

Milan Kundera
(L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être)

#20626
Urinate in nature is a religious rite by which we promise the Earth to return, one day, whole.

Milan Kundera
(Risibles amours)

#20627
The novel develops your personal passions but it can actually take off that when you cut the umbilical cord with your life and you start to question, not your life, but life itself.

Milan Kundera
(Entretien avec Antoine de Gaudemar - Février 1984)

#20628
The vocation of poetry isn't to dazzle us with a surprising idea, but to make a moment to be worthy of unbearable nostalgia and unforgettable.

Milan Kundera
(L’immortalité)

#20629
Who today revenge revenge tomorrow.

Milan Kundera
(La lenteur)

#20630
The Act of death has its own semantics, and it is not indifferent to know how a man died, and in which element.

Milan Kundera
(La vie est ailleurs)

#20631
The man, without his knowledge, composed his life according to the laws of beauty even in the moments of deepest despair.

Milan Kundera
(L’Insoutenable Légèreté de l’être)

#20632
The novel is enemy speed, playback must be slow, and the player must remain under the spell of a page, a paragraph, a sentence, even.

Milan Kundera
(Entretien avec Antoine de Gaudemar - Février 1984)

#20633
Love begins at the moment where a woman fits through a word in our poetic memory.

Milan Kundera
(Source inconnue)

#20634
The novel as such may appear as controversy because his deepest ambition is to reveal things and show what lies behind our beliefs and our representations.

Milan Kundera
(Entretien avec Antoine de Gaudemar - Février 1984)

#20635
Friendship is essential to humans for the proper functioning of his memory. Remembering his past, always carry with itself, it is perhaps necessary to keep, as they say, the integrity of his self.

Milan Kundera
(L'Identité)

#20636
Death becomes real when she starts to get inside through cracks in the aging human.

Milan Kundera
(La vie est ailleurs)

#20637
God has instilled in the hearts of women hatred of women because he wanted the human race multiplies.

Milan Kundera
(La Valse aux adieux)

#20638
What can we ask for more than to be happy a moment?

Milan Kundera
(Source inconnue)

#20639
Humour can exist only where people still discern the boundary between what is important and what is not. Today, this border is indistinguishable.

Milan Kundera
(L’immortalité)

#20640
A hackneyed value and an unmasked illusion have the same pathetic body, they look the same and nothing is easier to confuse them.

Milan Kundera
(La plaisanterie)

#20641
We write books because our children are not interested in us. We address the anonymous world because our ears when we speak to him.

Milan Kundera
(Le Livre du rire et de l’oubli)

#20642
A too strong faith is the worst of the allies. As soon as taking something to the letter, faith pushes this thing to the absurd.

Milan Kundera
(Risibles amours)

#20643
Love can not be laughable. Love has nothing in common with the laugh.

Milan Kundera
(Le Livre du rire et de l’oubli)

#20644
Flirting with the future is the worst of conformism, loose flattery of the strongest. Because the future is always stronger than the present. Is he, in fact, who will judge us. And certainly without any skill.

Milan Kundera
(L’Art du roman)

#20645
The noise has an advantage. Can't hear the words.

Milan Kundera
(L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être)

#20646
Same love makes you find more beautiful the beloved woman, anxiety that we inspired a dreaded woman gives a disproportionate relief to any flaw of his features...

Milan Kundera
(La valse aux adieux)

#20647
Who wants to remember must not stay in the same place and wait for the memories come alone to him! The memories are scattered in the vast world and must travel to find them and get them out of their shelter.

Milan Kundera
(Le Livre du rire et de l’oubli)

#20648
The lovers have always an illogical behavior.

Milan Kundera
(La lenteur)

#20649
The dull rhythmic primitivism of rock: the heartbeat is amplified so that humans don't forget a second his March toward death.

Milan Kundera
(L’Art du roman)

#20650
The kitsch is an aesthetic that is supported by a vision of the world, it is almost a philosophy. That's the beauty outside knowledge, is the will to embellish things and to please it's total conformity.

Milan Kundera
(Entretien avec Antoine de Gaudemar - Février 1984)

#20651
Composing a novel is to juxtapose different emotional spaces, and that is where the most subtle art of a novelist.

Milan Kundera
(L’Art du roman)

#20652
Having long been the brain of Europe, Paris is still the capital of something more than the France.

Milan Kundera
(Entretien avec Antoine de Gaudemar - Février 1984)

#20653
Any political movement is based on the kitsch, on the will to seduce.

Milan Kundera
(Entretien avec Antoine de Gaudemar - Février 1984)

#20654
Man plagued by misfortune seeks consolation in the amalgam of his sentence at the pain of others.

Milan Kundera
(La plaisanterie)

#20655
The originals have a pretty good life when they succeed in enforcing their originality.

Milan Kundera
(La Valse aux adieux)

#20656
The novel is a meditation on the life seen through imaginary characters.

Milan Kundera
(L’art du roman)

#20657
The true genius of the comic are not those who make us laugh the most, but those who reveal an unknown area of comedy.

Milan Kundera
(L’Art du roman)

#20658
Music is the negation of sentences, music is the anti-Word!

Milan Kundera
(L’Insoutenable légèreté de l’être)

#20659
Too much suspense in a book and it is burning and is consumed.

Milan Kundera
(Entretien avec Antoine de Gaudemar - Février 1984)

#20660
Before disappearing completely from the world, beauty will still exist a few moments, but by mistake. The beauty by mistake, is the last stage of the history of beauty.

Milan Kundera
(L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être)

#20661
To escape the pain, most often we take refuge in the future. On the track of time, one can imagine a line beyond which the present suffering will cease to exist.

Milan Kundera
(L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être)

#20662
If something was always deeply sickened humans, it's nice to see how his cruelty, his meanness and his narrow-minded manage to wear the mask of lyricism.

Milan Kundera
(La Valse aux adieux)

#20663
When a woman is not enough with his body, the body eventually him appear as an enemy.

Milan Kundera
(La vie est ailleurs)

#20664
Death has a double aspect: it is non-being. But she is also, the excruciatingly material being of the corpse.

Milan Kundera
(Le livre du rire et de l’oubli)

#20665
The meaning of an art history is opposite to that of the short story. By his personal character, an art history is a revenge of man on the impersonality of the history of humanity.

Milan Kundera
(Les testaments trahis)

#20666
The beauty of a Word is not in harmony phonetic of its syllables, but in semantic associations that its sound awakens.

Milan Kundera
(L’Art du roman)

#20667
Dancing in a round is magic; the Round talks to us from the ancient depths of memory.

Milan Kundera
(Le Livre du rire et de l’oubli)

#20668
Jealousy has the amazing power to illuminate the unique being intense rays and keep other men in total darkness.

Milan Kundera
(La Valse aux adieux)

#20669
Eroticism, commercially, is ambiguous because if everyone covets the erotic life, everyone also hates her as the cause of its woes, frustrations, desires, of its complexes, of his sufferings.

Milan Kundera
(L’Identité)

#20670
You must be at least one certainty: staying on top of his death and be able to choose the time and means.

Milan Kundera
(La Valse aux adieux)

#20671
Eroticism is not only desire of the body, but, in equal measure, desire to honor. A partner that we had, which is to us and who loves us, becomes our mirror, it is the measure of our value and our merit.

Milan Kundera
(Risibles amours)

#20672
The misogynist do not despise women. The misogynist dislikes femininity. In women, the worshiper worship femininity, while the misogynist always gives preference to women on femininity.

Milan Kundera
(Le livre du rire et de l’oubli)

#20673
The man has a right to want to do anything to a woman, but he won't behave like brute, to make sure she can act in harmony with its deepest delusions.

Milan Kundera
(La plaisanterie)

#20674
How it tells the contemporary story resembles a big concert where it would present in a row the one hundred thirty-eight opus of Beethoven but by playing only the first eight measures of each of them.

Milan Kundera
(La Lenteur)

#20675
Who is absolutely loved can be miserable.

Milan Kundera
(Le livre du rire et de l’oubli)

#20676
Lyricism is a drunk and the man gets drunk to blend more easily with the world.

Milan Kundera
(La vie est ailleurs)

#20677
Humor: the intoxication of the relativity of human things; strange pleasure born of the certainty that there is no certainty.

Milan Kundera
(Source inconnue)

#20678
This is the real and only reason for friendship: provide one mirror in which the other can contemplate his image of the past, without the Lord blah - blah of memories with friends, is would be erased for a long time.

Milan Kundera
(L'Identité)

#20679
Love is a continuous questioning.

Milan Kundera
(Source inconnue)

#20680
The loves are as empires: disappeared the idea on which they are built, they perish with it.

Milan Kundera
(L’Insoutenable Légèreté de l’être)

#20681
In a world built on sacrosanct certainty, the novel is dead.

Milan Kundera
(Entretien avec Antoine de Gaudemar - Février 1984)

#20682
Culture is based on the individual, the media are leading towards uniformity; culture illuminates the complexity of things, the media simplify them.

Milan Kundera
(Entretien avec Antoine de Gaudemar - Février 1984)

#20683
Biographers do not know their own wife's sex life, but they think they know as Stendhal or Faulkner.

Milan Kundera
(Source inconnue)

#20684
Shame has no basis for a mistake we have made, but the humiliation that we have to be what we are without having chosen, and the unbearable sensation that this humiliation is visible from everywhere.

Milan Kundera
(L’immortalité)

#20685
The BRA has the function to support something heavier than expected, whose weight has been miscalculated, and to support after a little as we support the balcony of a poorly constructed building with pillars and buttresses.

Milan Kundera
(L’Immortalité)

#20686
Print the form at a time, is the requirement of the beauty but also the memory.

Milan Kundera
(La Lenteur)

#20687
The culture isn't that a long interrogation, the media have a quick answer to everything; culture is the guardian of memory, the media are hunters of the news.

Milan Kundera
(Entretien avec Antoine de Gaudemar - Février 1984)

#20688
It's in the records from the archives of the police is our only immortality.

Milan Kundera
(Le livre du rire et de l’oubli)

#20689
Any mystique is excessive.

Milan Kundera
(Le livre du rire et de l’oubli)

#20690
Nothing, indeed, requires more effort on the thought that the argument to justify the no-thought.

Milan Kundera
(L’Immortalité)

#20691
Human hope for a world where good and evil are clearly discernible because is him the innate and indomitable, desire to judge until you understand.

Milan Kundera
(L’Art du roman)

#20692
Depending on how it is presented, the past of any one of us may as well be the biography of a beloved statesman than the biography of a criminal.

Milan Kundera
(Risibles amours)

#20693
No one is more insensitive than sentimental people.

Milan Kundera
(Source inconnue)

#20694
The extremes mark the border beyond which life ends, and the passion of extremism, in art as in politics, is disguised desire of death.

Milan Kundera
(L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être)

#20695
We live more and more in oblivion of being. Reconstitute this sensitivity to life, this attention to the coincidences, such is also the meaning of the novel.

Milan Kundera
(Entretien avec Antoine de Gaudemar - Février 1984)

#20696
Many people, few ideas, and how to differentiate ourselves from the other?

Milan Kundera
(L’immortalité)

#20697
Human destinies are welded to a cement of wisdom.

Milan Kundera
(La plaisanterie)

#20698
Is the parody the eternal destiny of man?

Milan Kundera
(La vie est ailleurs)

#20699
The novelist teaches his readers to understand the world as a question.

Milan Kundera
(Entretien avec Antoine de Gaudemar - Février 1984)

#20700
Sensuality, is the maximum mobilization of the senses: we observe each other intensely and we listen to his every noise.

Milan Kundera
(L’Insoutenable légèreté de l’être)

#20701
Nothing disgusts me as when people fraternize because each sees the other his own baseness.

Milan Kundera
(La plaisanterie)

#20702
Humans can never know what to want to because there is only one life and may compare it to previous lives or fix it in subsequent lives.

Milan Kundera
(L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être)

#20703
One who writes books is all (a unique universe for himself and all the others) or nothing. And because it will be never given someone to be everything, all of us who write books, we are nothing.

Milan Kundera
(Le Livre du rire et de l’oubli)

#20704
We talk willingly about lightning strikes; I am only too aware of what love tends to create a legend of oneself, to mythicize its beginnings after the fact.

Milan Kundera
(La Plaisanterie)

#20705
It's always what happens in life: we imagine its role in some room, and people do not suspect you was quietly changed the decorations, unsuspectingly, one has to occur in another show.

Milan Kundera
(Risibles Amours)

#20706
The man, because he writes books, turns into a universe and the universe is precisely to be unique. The existence of another universe threatened in its very essence.

Milan Kundera
(Le Livre du rire et de l’oubli)

#20707
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

Milan Kundera
(Source inconnue)

#20708
If you were responsible for things that one has conscience, fools would advance absolved of any wrongdoing. The man has to know. The man is responsible for his ignorance. Ignorance is a fault.

Milan Kundera
(Risibles amours)

#20709
There is no worse, worse horror than to transform a moment in eternity, to snatch the man time and its continuous movement.

Milan Kundera
(L’Immortalité)

#20710
The ugliness of human is the ugliness of the clothing.

Milan Kundera
(Le livre du rire et de l’oubli)

#20711
Beauty is the abolition of the chronology and the revolt against time.

Milan Kundera
(Le livre du rire et de l’oubli)

#20712
We never learn why and what we agaçons, what we are friendly, what we seem them ridiculous; our own image is for us the greatest mystery.

Milan Kundera
(L’Immortalité)

#20713
The trap of hatred, it's that she hugs us too closely to the opponent.

Milan Kundera
(L’Immortalité)

#20714
Not able to live a life, it's like not to live at all.

Milan Kundera
(L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être)

#20715
We want always, above all, the inaccessible, with greed.

Milan Kundera
(La plaisanterie)

#20716
The nostalgia for paradise, it is the desire of humans to not be human.

Milan Kundera
(L’Insoutenable légèreté de l’être)

#20717
The only purpose of the novel is to say only the novel can say.

Milan Kundera
(L’Art du roman)

#20718
Religion and humor are incompatible.

Milan Kundera
(Les testaments trahis)

#20719
Now, this invisible point, this nothingness that advances slowly towards death.

Milan Kundera
(Le livre du rire et de l’oubli)

#20720
Betray is stepping forward and go into the unknown.

Milan Kundera
(L’Insoutenable légèreté de l’être)

#20721
Believers have a keen sense of the staging of the miracles.

Milan Kundera
(La Valse aux adieux)

#20722
Existence is not what happened, the existence is the field of human possibilities, all humans can become, all that he is capable.

Milan Kundera
(L’art du roman)

#20723
The source of fear is in the future, and that is released from the future has nothing to fear.

Milan Kundera
(La lenteur)

#20724
It's looks to the temptation which nobody resists: for example the look on a traffic accident or a love letter which belongs to the other.

Milan Kundera
(Le Livre du rire et de l’oubli)

#20725
They are not enemies, but friends who condemn human loneliness.

Milan Kundera
(La Plaisanterie)

#20726
The policy is the foam dirty on the surface of the River, while in fact the life of the river is carried to a much greater depth.

Milan Kundera
(La valse aux adieux)

#20727
And if the story was joking?

Milan Kundera
(La plaisanterie)

#20728
Unity of humanity means: no one can escape anywhere.

Milan Kundera
(L’Art du roman)

#20729
As we're helpless in front of flattery!

Milan Kundera
(L’Insoutenable légèreté de l’être)

#20730
Publish what the author has removed is the same Act of rape that censor what he has decided to keep.

Milan Kundera
(Les testaments trahis)

#20731
Nothing is more humiliating than to find a scathing response to a scathing attack.

Milan Kundera
(La Lenteur)

#20732
Women do not seek the handsome man. Women are looking for the man who had beautiful women.

Milan Kundera
(Le livre du rire et de l’oubli)

#20733
When you kill big dreams it flows a lot of blood.

Milan Kundera
(Source inconnue)

#20734
There is nothing like jealousy to absorb a whole human being.

Milan Kundera
(La valse aux adieux)

#20735
The novelist is neither historian nor Prophet: he is Explorer of existence.

Milan Kundera
(L’Art du roman)

#20736
An event is not disqualified by his accidental character, instead it was chance that gives it its beauty, his poetry.

Milan Kundera
(Entretien avec Antoine de Gaudemar - Février 1984)

#20737
In the game it is not free, for the player the game is a trap.

Milan Kundera
(Risibles amours)

#20738
The novel must destroy the certainties.

Milan Kundera
(Entretien avec Antoine de Gaudemar - Février 1984)

#20739
The greatest pleasure is to be admired.

Milan Kundera
(La valse aux adieux)

#20740
The memory of the disgust is larger than the memory of tenderness!

Milan Kundera
(Le Livre du rire et de l’oubli)

#20741
The meaning of life is precisely to have fun with life.

Milan Kundera
(Risibles amours)

#20742
Who cares is not the goal, don't ask where he's going!

Milan Kundera
(Le livre du rire et de l’oubli)

#20743
Memory not shooting, photography memory.

Milan Kundera
(L’Immortalité)

#20744
All tends to see a guilty man in strength and weakness an innocent victim.

Milan Kundera
(L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être)

#20745
The survey has become a kind of higher reality; or to put it another way, it has become the truth.

Milan Kundera
(L’immortalité)

#20746
Having a child, show an absolute agreement with the man. If I have a child, it's like I said: I was born, I've tasted life and I found that she is so good that it deserves to be multiplied.

Milan Kundera
(La Valse aux adieux)

#20747
Being brave in isolation, without witnesses, without the consent of the other, face to face with yourself, this requires a lot of strength and pride.

Milan Kundera
(La plaisanterie)

#20748
Nothing more useless to want to prove something to the fools.

Milan Kundera
(L’immortalité)

#20749
A random value is equal to its degree of improbability.

Milan Kundera
(L’immortalité)

#20750
What distinguishes the autodidact who has done studies, is not the scale of the knowledge, but different degrees of vitality and self-confidence.

Milan Kundera
(L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être)

#20751
There are ideas that are like an attack.

Milan Kundera
(L’insoutenable légèreté de l’être)

#20752
Man desires eternity but it cannot have as its ersatz: the moment of ecstasy.

Milan Kundera
(Les Testaments trahis)

#20753
Those who squander their sensitivity wrongly and through are when you have.

Milan Kundera
(Jacques et son maître)

#20754
Being owned by the news, it's being possessed by oblivion.

Milan Kundera
(Entretien avec Antoine de Gaudemar - Février 1984)

#20755
The feeling of love abused us by an illusion of knowledge.

Milan Kundera
(L’Immortalité)

#20756
Concern for his own image, this is the incorrigible human immaturity.

Milan Kundera
(L'immortalité)

#20757
I think, therefore I am is a subject of intellectual who underestimates toothaches.

Milan Kundera
(L'immortalité)

#20758
The man compensates for the weight of evil which it crushed her spine by the mass of his hatred.

Milan Kundera
(La plaisanterie)

#20759
Culture, it is the memory of the people, the collective consciousness of historical continuity, the way of thinking and living.

Milan Kundera
(Le Monde - Janvier 1979)

#20760
Only a very large intelligence is able to infuse a logical sense for foolish ideas.

Milan Kundera
(L'identité)

#20761
Every woman is a measure of its ageing interest or disinterest that men show for his body.

Milan Kundera
(L'Identité)

#20762
The stupidity of the people is to have an answer for everything. The wisdom of a novel is to have a question at all.

Milan Kundera
(Entretien avec Antoine de Gaudemar - Février 1984)

#20763
Optimism is the opium of the human race! The Holy Spirit stinks of stupidity.

Milan Kundera
(La plaisanterie)

#20764
We want to be master of the future to be able to change the past.

Milan Kundera
(Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli)

#20765
To love is unforgettable, be that chance join from the first moment.

Milan Kundera
(L'insoutenable légèreté de l'être)

#20766
The power of the journalist is not based on the right to ask a question, but to demand an answer.

Milan Kundera
(L'Immortalité)

#20767
Seduce a woman, it is within the reach of the first fool. But he must also know break; It is recognition of a mature man.

Milan Kundera
(La valse aux adieux)

#20768
An excessive love is a guilty love.

Milan Kundera
(La valse aux adieux)

#20769
The novelist must show the world as it is: a puzzle and a paradox.

Milan Kundera
(Entretien avec Antoine de Gaudemar - Février 1984)

#20770
As a great music we can listen without end, the great novels they are made for repeated readings.

Milan Kundera
(Les Testaments trahis)

#20771
Children are without past and it's all the mystery of the magic of their smile innocence.

Milan Kundera
(Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli)

#20772
Speed is the form of Ecstasy the technical revolution's gift to man.

Milan Kundera
(La lenteur)

#20773
The greatest misfortune of human, it's a happy marriage. No hope of divorce.

Milan Kundera
(Risibles amours)

#20774
Solitude: sweet lack of looks.

Milan Kundera
(L'immortalité)

#20775
Sex is not love, what a territory that love appropriates.

Milan Kundera
(Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli)

#20776
It is eroticism and dance: one of the partners still load to drive the other.

Milan Kundera
(L'immortalité)

#20777
Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Milan Kundera
(L'Insoutenable légèreté de l'être)

#20778
Music: a pump to inflate the soul.

Milan Kundera
(L'Immortalité)

#20779
If any man had the opportunity to murder secretly and remotely, humanity would disappear in a few minutes.

Milan Kundera
(La Valse aux adieux)

#20780
Today you can make music with computers, but the computer has always existed in the head of the composers.

Milan Kundera
(L'Art du roman)

#20781
The excitement is the Foundation of eroticism, its most profound Enigma, its keyword.

Milan Kundera
(L'Art du roman)

#20782
The great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

Milan Kundera
(L'Art du roman)

#20783
Looking for infinity has only to close my eyes.

Milan Kundera
(L'Insoutenable légèreté de l'être)

#20784
But what is "being serious"? Is the serious one who believes that he made others believe.

Milan Kundera
(Jacques et son maître)

#20785
Child: existence without a biography.

Milan Kundera
(L'identité)

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