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
moving good-luck cheerful
From the top of the staircase she sees the London train, modern and elegant, and she tells herself again: Whether it's good luck or bad to be born onto this earth, the best way to spend a life here is to let yourself be carried along, as I am moving at this moment, by a cheerful, noisy crowd moving forward.
love strong eternity
I have a strong will to love you for eternity.
men situations-in-life return
Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. (p.148)
joy rooftops saddest
...[P]eople who shout joy from the rooftops are often the saddest of all... (p.24)
memories escaping understood
I understood that there was no escaping the memories, that I was surround by them. (p.30)
children men knowing
We are born one time only, we can never start a new life equipped with the experience we've gained from the previous one. We leave childhood without knowing what youth is, we marry without knowing what it is to be married, and even when we enter old age, we don't know what it is we're heading for: the old are innocent children innocent of thier old age. In that sense, man's world is the planet of inexperience.
moving home paris
Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.
men always-smile possessed
a man possessed with peace is always smiling
happened
But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.
mets fallen ifs
If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him.
passionate body surface
She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.
past people want
The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
women events action
Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.
art mean passion
Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.