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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| c90ce05 | don't be scared, don't be scared, you won't feel any pain there, you'll dream of squirrels abd rabbits, you'll have cows there, and Mefisto will be there, don't be scared"..." | Milan Kundera | ||
| 6bb4a56 | Swrtn lkhS@, hy llGz l'kbr blnsb@ ln. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 1cb3536 | M]an has always harbored the desire to rewrite his own biography, to change the past, to wipe out tracks, both his own and other's. (p.130) | Milan Kundera | ||
| 16318bd | Vlasta me reprocha que soy un sonador. Parece que no veo las cosas tal como son. No, veo las cosas tal como son, pero ademas de las cosas visibles veo tambien las invisibles. Las ideas inventadas no son algo inutil. Son precisamente ellas las que hacen de nuestras casas hogares | soñadores | Milan Kundera | |
| 7ec30be | He took a look at the blond girl's eyes and knew that he must not take part in the rigged game in which the ephemeral passes for the eternal and the small for the big, that he must not take part in the rigged game called love. | Milan Kundera | ||
| f42a6ad | Hyn y`ln 'Hdhm, b`jrf@ wtfkhr, ntmh lljyl lshb, fnn n`rf jydan m ldhy yqSdh: yqSd b'nh sykwn myzl `l~ qyd lHy@ Hyn yqb` lakhrwn bshkl ythyr lDHk tHt ltrb. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 5881652 | ljml mn Gyr qSd hy lmrHl@ l'khyr@ mn trykh ljml | Milan Kundera | ||
| bd54dc4 | Tu t'imagines qu'un mensonge en vaut un autre, mais tu as tort. Je peux inventer n'importe quoi, me payer la tete des gens, monter toutes sortes de mystifications, faire toutes sortes de blagues, je n'ai pas l'impression d'etre un menteur ; ces mensonges-la, si tu veux appeler cela des mensonges, c'est moi, tel que je suis ; avec ces mensonges-la, je ne dissimule rien, avec ces mensonges-la je dis en fait la verite. Mais il y a des choses a.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 2bfc53d | Pero es precisamente el debil quien debe ser fuerte y saber marcharse cuando el fuerte es demasiado debil para ser capaz de hacerle dano al debil | Milan Kundera | ||
| 496674e | a person who thinks should not try to persuade others to his belief; that is what puts him on the road to a system; on the lamentable road of the "man of conviction"; politicians like to call themselves that; but what is a conviction? It is a thought that has come to a stop, that has congealed, and "the man of conviction" is a man restricted." | Milan Kundera | ||
| 1c83687 | What he yearned for at that moment, vaguely but with all his might, was unbounded music, absolute sound, a pleasant and happy all-encompassing, over-powering, window-rattling din to engulf, once and for all, the pain, the futility, the vanity of words. Music was the negation of sentences, music was the anti-word! | Milan Kundera | ||
| b4d250d | wlkn Hyn knt lqw@ D`yf@ jdan mn 'n tw'dhy lD`f, kn lD`f lykwn qwyan kfy@ lyrHl. | Milan Kundera | ||
| c90c42f | The engineer's ready capitulation, however, did not hide from the poet's mother the sad realization that the adventure into which she had plunged so impulsively--and which had seemed so intoxicatingly beautiful--had no turned out to be the great, mutually fulfilling love she was convinced she had a full right to expect. Her father was the owner of two prosperous Prague pharmacies, and her morality was based on strict give-and-take. For her .. | Milan Kundera | ||
| b8a52fd | From that time on they both looked forward to sleeping together. I might even say that the goal of their lovemaking was not so much pleasure as the sleep that followed it. She especially was affected. Whenever she stayed overnight in her rented room (which quickly became only an alibi for Tomas), she was unable to fall asleep; in his arms she would fall asleep no matter how wrought up she might have been. He would whisper impromptu fairy ta.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 5b00d1e | Ljudsko vrijeme se ne okrece u krugu, vec juri po pravoj liniji naprijed. To je razlog zasto covjek ne moze biti sretan, jer je sreca ceznja za ponavljanjem. | vreme život | Milan Kundera | |
| b8142b2 | vivre dans la verite, ne mentir ni a soi-meme ni aux autres, ce n'est possible qu'a la condition de vivre sans public. Des lors qu'il y a un temoin a nos actes, nous nous adaptons bon gre mal gre aux yeux qui nous observent, et plus rien de ce que nous faisons n'est vrai. Avoir un public, penser a un public, c'est vivre dans le mensonge (partie III, ch. 7) | living truth | Milan Kundera | |
| a8e2d24 | Tous les hommes politiques d'aujourd'hui, selon Pontevin, sont un peu danseurs, et tous les danseurs se melent de politique, ce qui, toutefois, ne devrait pas nous amener a les confondre. Le danseur se distingue de l'homme politique ordinaire en ceci qu'il ne desire pas le pouvoir mais la gloire ; il ne desire pas imposer au monde telle ou telle organisation sociale (il s'en soucie comme d'une guigne) mais occuper la scene pour faire rayonn.. | politicians | Milan Kundera | |
| 06fde39 | kn y`lm jyd 'n dhkrth tmqth, wl tf`l shyy' akhr Gyr lftr `lyh, wbltly fqd jhd kyl y`Tyh mSdqy@ wySbH 'kthr tsmH m` Hyth. lkn dwn ntyj@, lm ykn ysh`r b'yW@ ldh@ blnZr l~ lkhlf wkn yf`l dhlk b'ql m ymkn . | Milan Kundera | ||
| f8957f0 | Le sentiment d'etre elu est present, par exemple, dans toute relation amoureuse. car l'amour, par definition, est un cadeau non merite ; etre aime sans merite, c'est meme la preuve d'un vrai amour. Si une femme me dit : je t'aime parce que tu es intelligent, parce que tu es honnete, parce que tu m'achetes des cadeaux, parce que tu ne dragues pas, parce que tu fais la vaiselle, je suis decu ; cet amour a l'air de quelque chose d'interesse. C.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| dca816b | maW kn ybHth ld~ kl hw'l lns? m ldhy kn yshdWh lyhn? 'lyst l`lq@ ljnsy@ `d@ dy'm@ llshy nfsh? Tlqan. tbq~ hnk dy'man nsb@ SGyr@ mn "lmt`dhWr tSwrh" fhw Hyn kn yr~ mr'@ fy kml thybh, kn fy ws`h 'n ytkhyWl tqryban kyf stbdw why `ry@ (hn knt khbr@ lTbyq tkml khbr@ l`shq). wlkn byn mqrb@ lfkr@ wdq@ lwq` tbq~ dy'man hnk thGr@ SGyr@, thGr@u lmt`dhWr tSwrh. whdhh lthGr@ bldht hy lty lm tkn ttrkh fy slm. thm w'naW mlHq@ lmt`dhr tSwrh l tktml bktshf.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 71c5a46 | Ni jedna ljubav ne moze prezivjeti u sutnji. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 6c30541 | lkhlT byn lmZhr ljsdy llmHbwb@ wmZhr akhr: km mr@ sbq lh n `sh dhlk? `shh dy'man bldhsh@ dhth: hl lfrq bynh wbyn lakhryt dhn bhdhh lDal@? kyf ymkn 'n l y`rf kyf yt`rf `l~ Tyb 'Hb lky'nt lyh, Tyb lky'n ldhy y`dh l mthyl lh?! | Milan Kundera | ||
| 2eccf37 | l'nZm@ lmjrm@ lm yunshy'h 'ns mjrmwn, wnm 'uns mtHmswn wmuqtn`wn b'nhm wjdw lTryq lwHyd ldhy yw'dy l~ ljn@. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 018198a | La honte n'a pas pour fondement une faute que nous aurions commise, mais l'humiliation que nous eprouvons a etre ce que nous sommes sans l'avoir choisi, et la sensation insupportable que cette humiliation est visible de partout. | Milan Kundera | ||
| f7bffa4 | You certainly remember this scene from dozens of films: a boy and a girl are running hand in hand in a beautiful spring (or summer) landscape. Running, running, running and laughing. By laughing the two runners are proclaiming to the whole world, to audiences in all the movie theaters: "We're happy, we're glad to be in the world, we're in agreement with being!" It's a silly scene, a cliche, but it expresses a basic human attitude: serious l.. | czech existentialism happiness kitsch laughter meaning-of-life novel philosophy | Milan Kundera | |
| 1fdc4fc | All human beings have always aspired to an idyll, to that garden where nightingales sing, to that realm of harmony where the world does not rise up as a stranger against man and man against other men, but rather where the world and all men are shaped from one and the same matter. There, everyone is a note in a sublime Bach fugue, and anyone who refuses to be one is a mere useless and meaningless black dot that need only be caught and crushe.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 12120d9 | And Jakub realized that this child had done no harm, that he was not guilty of anything, and yet had been born with bad eyes and would have them forever. And he reflected further that what he had held against others was something given, something they came into the world with and carried with them like a heavy wire fence. He reflected that he had no privileged right to high-mindedness and that the highest degree of high-mindedness is to lov.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 04c0880 | Do you think that a doe in the jaws of a tiger feels less horror than you? People thought up the idea that animals don't have the same capability for suffering as humans, because otherwise they couldn't bear the knowledge that they are surrounded by a world of nature that is horror and nothing but horror." Paul was pleased that man was gradually covering the whole earth with concrete. It was as if he were watching a cruel murderess being w.. | nature suffering | Milan Kundera | |
| 71b1d1b | mn y`tdhr fnh y`trf bdhnbh, wHyn t`trf bdhnbk, tshjWi` lakhr `l~ lstmrr fy hntk wfDHk `l~ lml' Ht~ mmtk hdhh hy l`wqb lwkhym@ ll'`tdhr.. hdh SHyH yjb `ly lmr l y`tdhr, wlkny fDl `lman y`tdhr fyh lns jmy`an, bl stthn, bl d`, wbfrT mn 'jl l shy'.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| cbb25a7 | lqt lHb mthl lmbrTwryt m n ykhtfy lmbd' ldhy ynbt `l~ 'ssh Ht~ tkhtfy m`h 'yD | Milan Kundera | ||
| 18c6ff7 | Homer never wondered whether, after their many hand-to-hand struggles, Achilles or Ajax still had all their teeth. | Milan Kundera | ||
| fd3a65b | Hss `shq hmh m r dchr yn twhm gmrhkhnndh myszd khh Trf khwd r myshnsym. | Milan Kundera | ||
| bd15208 | In Czech, according to Milan Kundera, litost is a state of agony and torment created by the sudden sight of one's own misery. | Rabih Alameddine | ||
| 07a3b1e | If you don't care about the destination, you don't ask where you're going. | Milan Kundera | ||
| ac7339c | fkar twms :n mDj`@ mr'@ wlnwm m`h rGbtn lyst mkhtlftyn fHsb bl mtnqDtyn 'yD.flHb l ytjl~ blrGb@ f~ mmrs@ ljns (whdhh lrGb@ tnTbq `l~ `dd l yHS~ mn lns) wlkn blrGb@ f~ lnwm lmshtrk (whdhh lrGb@ l tkhS l mr'@ wHd@). | Milan Kundera | ||
| c4121fb | Zl yqlb fy r'sh bsrwr w Hnyn fkr@ llh w hw shbh wthq b'n llh Gyr mwjwd | Milan Kundera | ||
| 811108a | In my opinion, Jan is mistaken in thinking that the border is a line that crosses a man's life at a specific point, that it marks a break in time, a particular second on the clock of a human life. No. I am certain, on the contrary, that the border is constantly with us, irrespective of time and our stage of life, that it is omnipresent, even though circumstances might make it more or less visible. The woman Jan had loved most was right to s.. | Milan Kundera | ||
| f2adbdc | They were ready to sell people a future in exchange for their past... They wanted to compel him to cast his life away and become a shadow, a man without past, an actor without a role, and turn even his castaway life, even the role the actor had abandoned, into a shadow. Having turned him into a shadow, they would let him live. | past shadow | Milan Kundera | |
| 0e2e396 | He looks at Mama out of the corner of his eye, again surprised by how little she is. As if all of her life has been a slow process of shrinkage. But just what is that shrinkage? Is it the real shrinkage of a person abandoning his adult dimensions and starting on the long journey through old age and death toward distances where there is only a nothingness without dimension? | Milan Kundera | ||
| 3e95cf7 | kl lwjwh knt Hqyqy@ lm ykn ly , `l~ Grr lmnfqyn wjh Hqyqy w'khr~ zy'f@ ,kn ldy `d@ wjwh l'ny knt ftyan wlm 'kn 'n nfsy , '`rf mn 'kwn wmn 'ryd 'n 'kwnh lymn` dhlk mn 'n `dm ltnsb lmwjwd byn kl hdhh lwjwh kn ykhlq ldy lwjl ,lm 'kn 'Tbq 'yan mnh tmman, wknt 'tHrk wrh bbld@ bshkl '`m~. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 3c2af6e | Insan hicbir seyi, hicbir kimseyi ciddiye alamayinca yasamak ne kadar da huzun verici! | Milan Kundera | ||
| 96fc6e3 | The entire human species has good reason to go down into the streets and shout 'We are all writers!' For everyone is pained with the thought of disappearing, unheard, and unseen into an indifferent universe and because of that, everyone wants, wither there's still time, to turn himself into a universe of words. | Milan Kundera | ||
| 3df3960 | Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. This is the obscenity of war: the intimacy of mutually shed blood, the lascivious proximity of two soldiers who, eye to eye, bayonet each other. | hatred obscenity war | Milan Kundera | |
| ec10632 | Even a life of suffering has a mysterious value. Even a life on the threshold of death is a thing of splendor. Anyone who has not looked death in the face does not know this, but I know it ... | Milan Kundera |