Milan Kundera Quotes

“Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:death politics

“Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:death

“She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: we are at the last station. The happiness meant: we are together. The sadness was form, the happiness content.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:happiness sadness

“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, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:happiness time

“the only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:happiness freedom relationship

“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:happiness living

“the moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:truth

“on the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth showing through.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:truth lie

“Dog time cannot be plotted along a straight line; it does not move on and on, from one thing to the next. It moves in a circle like the hands of a clock, which—they, too, unwilling to dash madly ahead—turn round and round the face, day in and...”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:time

“To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

topic:women foolishness pride

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