Milan Kundera quotes

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to …When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

Short Heart Mind

You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they …You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

Silence Love

Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be …Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

Humans Time Life Happiness

The Greek word for 'return' is nostos. Algos means 'suffering.' So nostalgia is the suffering …The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.

Memory Ignorance Suffering

for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain …for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Compassion

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on …Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace.

Peace

Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a …Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.

There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age …There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.

Time

Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is …Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law in their case; animals have the right to a merciful death.

Death

Physical love is unthinkable without …Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

Romance Love Relationship

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's …Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

People Short Romantic Love

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our …We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.

Life



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I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was …I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against …The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting

I want you to be weak. As weak as I …I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

Short Love

Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take …Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.

Relationship Women