The greater the ambiguity, the greater the pleasure. Milan Kundera More Quotes by Milan Kundera More Quotes From Milan Kundera The ludicrous element in our feeling does not make them any less authentic. Milan Kundera elements doe feelings Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs. Milan Kundera imagine dream needs Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love. Milan Kundera wall dirty ideas The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting. Milan Kundera degrees forget memories The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say. Milan Kundera creative ambition writing Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being. Milan Kundera unbearable burden drama What I need most of all is certainty. Milan Kundera certainty needs Anyone who thinks that the Communist regimes of Central Europe are exclusively the work of criminals is overlooking a basic truth: The criminal regimes were made not by criminals but by enthusiasts convinced they had discovered the only road to paradise. They defended that road so valiantly that they were forced to execute many people. Later it became clear that there was no paradise, that the enthusiasts were therefore murderers. Milan Kundera europe people thinking To be mortal is the most basic human experience, and yet man has never been able to accept it, grasp it, and behave accordingly. Man doesn't know how to be mortal. And when he dies, he doesn't even know how to be dead. Milan Kundera able accepting men If I had two lives, in one life I could invite her to stay at my place, and in the second life I could kick her out. Then I could compare and see which had been the best thing to do. But we only live once. Life's so light. Like an outline we can't ever fill in or correct... make any better. It's frightening". Milan Kundera compare light two People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. Milan Kundera void want people Laughing deeply is living deeply. Milan Kundera happiness laughing And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition. Milan Kundera time running happiness All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. Milan Kundera great-novels bisexual novel To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends. Milan Kundera flower friendship memories In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine. Milan Kundera auras unbearable sunset Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful. Milan Kundera beautiful love two Only animals were not expelled from Paradise. Milan Kundera animal motivational inspirational Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying. Milan Kundera drinking sky water We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. Milan Kundera rehearsal actors warning
