Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera
Milan Kunderais a Czech-born writer who went into exile in France in 1975, and became a naturalised French citizen in 1981. He "sees himself as a French writer and insists his work should be studied as French literature and classified as such in book stores"...
NationalityCzechoslovakian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth1 April 1929
eye identity persons
The eye the point where a person's identity is concentrated.
reason fragments existence
Only a literary work that reveals an unknown fragment of human existence has a reason for being.
love-is air important
Through the air floated only important words, and Flajsman said to himself that love has but one true measure, and that is death. At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.
sadness way kind
She knew that there were all kinds of ways to make a conquest and that one of the surest roads to a woman's genitals was through her sadness.
love-is violence unbearable-lightness-of-being
There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
lying book past
And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.
memories shadow documentation
All previous crimes of the Russian empire had been committed under the cover of a discreet shadow. The deportation of a million Lithuanians, the murder of hundreds of thousands of Poles, the liquidation of the Crimean Tatars remain in our memory, but no photographic documentation exists; sooner or later they will therefore be proclaimed as fabrications.
sex ideas bizarre
Attaching love to sex is one of the most bizarre ideas the Creator ever had.
past looks different
Now time has a very different look; it is no longer the conquering present capturing the future; it is the present conquered and captured and carried off by the past.
goal suffering unbearable
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.
years want matter
what's the matter?" he asked "nothing" "what do you want me to do for you?" "i want you to be old. ten years older. twenty years older" what she meant was: i want you to be weak. as weak as i am.
mean revolution want
Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?
giving unity splinters
Fidelity gives a unity to lives that would otherwise splinter into thousands of split-second impressions.
Those boobs of yours are ubiquitous - like God!