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
strong hurt unbearable
But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.
home mind unbearable
In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.
love-is half unbearable
Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
unhappy-person unbearable life-is
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.
unbearable metaphor dangerous
Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.
giving unbearable birth
A single metaphor can give birth to love.
strong overwhelming-desire unbearable-lightness-of-being
She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say. The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express.
rehearsal firsts unbearable
And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?
cutting tests unbearable
Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.
kitsch unbearable-lightness-of-being existence
Kitsch excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence
love-is unbearable-lightness-of-being metaphor
Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor
love-is violence unbearable-lightness-of-being
There are things that can be accomplished only by violence. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.
goal suffering unbearable
Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.
drama unbearable burden
Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.