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
drama serious combination
The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.
men paradise longing
The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.
crush smoking listening
Listening to a news broadcast is like smoking a cigarette and crushing the butt in the ashtray.
love-is half unbearable
Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
messages chance speak
Chance and chance alone has a message for us. Everything that occurs out of necessity, everything expected, repeated day in and day out, is mute. Only chance can speak to us.
perfection
There is no perfection only life
knowing giving emotion
The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.
unhappy-person unbearable life-is
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
maturity mind doe
It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.
lying worry anxiety
The source of anxiety lies in the future. If you can keep the future out of mind, you can forget your worries.
soul body betrayed
and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body that had betrayed her and that she had sent out into the world among other bodies.
essence flames body
For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought.
love two numbers
You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.
dream reflection mirrors
Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you. And then, when you reached forty, someone put a mirror before you for the first time in your life. Imagine your fright! You'd see the face of a stranger. And you'd know quite clearly what you are unable to grasp: your face is not you.