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
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.
past people political
People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.
inspirational heart mind
When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
laughter domes temples
The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.
strength memories struggle
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.