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

“What does it mean to live in truth? Putting it negatively is easy enough: it means not lying, not hiding, and not dissimulating.”

“If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond "Es Muss sein!”

“When Don Quixote went out into the world, that world turned into a mystery before his eyes. That is the legacy of the first European novel to the entire subsequent history of the novel. The novel teaches us to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude.”

“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.”

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

“Does that diminish my own experience, because someone has it worse? There's always someone with a shittier life than yours. That doesn't turn the shit in your life into roses.”

“Open your eyes and realize that some closed doors were meant to lead you to better doors!”

“Move and make a unique expression—an expression of God’s reflection.”

“I was born not to die but to live and never born.”

“Forgive yourself before you die. Then forgive others.”

“Be civil if you want victory. Violence is not the solution.”