A man able to think isn't defeated - even when he is defeated. Milan Kundera More Quotes by Milan Kundera More Quotes From Milan Kundera So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game. Milan Kundera nakedgamesmen He took over anger to intimidate subordinates, and in time anger took over him. Milan Kundera intimidatingconflictanger Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Milan Kundera lightstrongtwo In her presence I could dare everything: sincerity, emotion, pathos. Milan Kundera pathossincerityemotion Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed to the image of woman. The more technical and mechanical, cold and metallic it becomes, the more it will need the kind of warmth that only the woman can give it. If we want to save the world, we must adapt to the woman, let ourselves be led by the woman, let ourselves be penetrated by the Ewigweiblich, the eternally feminine! Milan Kundera menwarmean 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. Milan Kundera differentpastthinking If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him. Milan Kundera metsfallenifs I think I am a much better actor than I have allowed myself to be. Milan Kundera actorsthinking The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. Milan Kundera teachnovelistsworld she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others. Milan Kundera unbearablearmsbook And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? Milan Kundera rehearsalunbearablefirsts I am not in favor of imposing happiness on people. Everyone has a right to his bad wine, to his stupidity, and to his dirty fingernails. Milan Kundera winepeopledirty A mismatched outfit, a slightly defective denture, an exquisite mediocrity of the soul-those are the details that make a woman real, alive. The women you see on posters or in fashion magazines-the ones all the women try to imitate nowadays-how can they be attractive? They have no reality of their own; they're just the sum of a set of abstract rules. They aren't born of human bodies; they hatch ready-made from the computers." ~The Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera laughterfashionbeauty He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his life?) only two or three were really essential and unforgettable. The rest were mere echoes, imitations, repetitions, or reminiscences. Milan Kundera echoesessentialstwo There is such a thing as everyday, ordinary, vulgar ecstasy; the ecstasy of anger, the ecstasy of speed at the wheel, the ecstasy of ear-splitting noise, ecstasy in the soccer stadium. Milan Kundera everydayfootballsoccer The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertainments are terribly serious-think of Cervantes! Milan Kundera novelistsfactsthinking When you sit face to face with someone who is pleasant, respectful, and polite, you have hard time reminding yourself that nothing he says is true/sincere. Milan Kundera sincerehard-timesfaces A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster. Milan Kundera monstersgivingmen The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programs; or cartoons. What is essential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential. If a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold. Milan Kundera crazywritingbook Love is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love. Milan Kundera definition-of-lovedefinitionslove-is
