Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However contemptible the world may be, they still need it to be able to talk together. 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 elementsdoefeelings Our dreams prove that to imagine - to dream about things that have not happened - is among mankind's deepest needs. Milan Kundera imaginedreamneeds Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love. Milan Kundera walldirtyideas 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 degreesforgetmemories 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 creativeambitionwriting 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 unbearableburdendrama What I need most of all is certainty. Milan Kundera certaintyneeds 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 europepeoplethinking 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 ableacceptingmen 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 comparelighttwo 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 voidwantpeople Laughing deeply is living deeply. Milan Kundera happinesslaughing 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 timerunninghappiness All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual. Milan Kundera great-novelsbisexualnovel 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 flowerfriendshipmemories In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine. Milan Kundera aurasunbearablesunset Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful. Milan Kundera beautifullovetwo Only animals were not expelled from Paradise. Milan Kundera animalmotivationalinspirational 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 drinkingskywater We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. Milan Kundera rehearsalactorswarning
