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
motivation inspiration ideas
People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.
ambition form lifelong
My lifelong ambition has been to unite the utmost seriousness of question with the utmost lightness of form.
dog kind has-beens
God has been kind to dogs in no putting a sense of beauty into their heads.
evil fuzzy borders
The border between good and evil is terribly fuzzy.
adventure land forever
No episode is a priori condemned to remain an episode forever, for every event, no matter how trivial, conceals within itself the possibility of sooner or later becoming the cause of other events and thus changing into a story or an adventure. Episodes are like land mines. The majority of them never explode, but the most unremarkable of them may someday turn into a story that will prove fateful to you.
noise advantage
Noise has one advantage. It drowns out words.
soul unity age
But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science , instantly fades away.
reality ideas gaps
Between the approximation of the idea and the precision of reality there was a small gap of the unimaginable, and it was this hiatus that gave him no rest.
inspiration names history
We don't know when our name came into being or how some distant ancestor acquired it. We don't understand our name at all, we don't know its history and yet we bear it with exalted fidelity, we merge with it, we like it, we are ridiculously proud of it as if we had thought it up ourselves in a moment of brilliant inspiration.
dream party hands
To put it another way, every love relationship is based upon unwritten conventions rashly agreed upon by the lovers during the first weeks of their love. On the one hand, they are living a sort of dream; on the other, without realizing it, they are drawing up the fine print of their contracts like the most hard-nosed of lawyers. O lovers! Be wary during those perilous first days! If you serve the other party breakfast in bed, you will be obliged to continue same in perpetuity or face charges of animosity and treason!
player games traps
Even in the game there lurks a lack of freedom; even in a game is a trap for the players.
inspirational funny ambition
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
sweet loneliness being-alone
Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.
music guitar idiocy
The history of music is mortal, but the idiocy of the guitar is eternal.