The Unbearable Lightness of Being Quotes

“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“Love is a battle . . . And I plan to go on fighting. To the end.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“For that edifice rested on the single column of her fidelity, and loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond Es muss sein!”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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“Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”

― Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

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