Philosophy Quote by Milan Kundera — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“…Справжні романи завжди трохи мудріші за їхніх авторів. Романісти, мудріші за власні твори, повинні поміняти професію.”

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

“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.”

“Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.”

“The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have circumvented.”

“Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.”

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

“#quote In the harshest conditions is when we know better the people around us. En las condiciones más duras es cuando conocemos mejor a las personas que nos rodean.”

“Encheremos o mundo de coisas preciosas. Serão tantas que os homens passarão por elas julgando-as banais.”

“Let the word be written by you and not told by others”

“A false-statement requires deceit and distortion for someone to buy it, but a truthful-statement sells itself.”

“Do you understand what I'm saying?”