Milan Kundera Quotes
1929–2023 Czech Republic
Milan Kundera (1 April 1929 – 11 July 2023) was a Franco-Czech novelist born in Brno, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic).
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- Poets
Also known as: Kundera, Milan
90 quotes
Fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil.
In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.
What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person.
Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.
In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia.
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
To love someone out of compassion means not really to love.
Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
No act is of itself either good or bad. Only its place in the order of things makes it good or bad.
But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Milan Kundera (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.