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

Milan Kundera book Identity

Identity (1998), p. 78

“She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It differentiated her from the others”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Humanity's true moral test, its fundamental test…consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals.”

“In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Pg 5
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight

“Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.”

Milan Kundera book Encounter

Source: Encounter

“Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The eye… the point where a person's identity is concentrated.”

Milan Kundera book Identity

Identity (1998), pg 63

“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.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However contemptible the world may be, they still need it to be able to talk together.”

Milan Kundera book Identity

Pg 82
Identity (1998)

“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight

“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.”

As quoted in The Canine Hiker's Bible (2000) by Doug Gelbert, p. 8

“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

pg 233
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight

“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

pg 71
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body

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

Milan Kundera book Ignorance

Source: Ignorance

“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight, p. 4

“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

pg 27
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight

“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.”

“There is no perfection only life”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“A single metaphor can give birth to love.”

Milan Kundera book The Unbearable Lightness of Being

pg 10
Variant: Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight