Milan Kundera híres idézetei
Milan Kundera Idézetek az emberekről
Mindkét hiedelem hamis. A valóságban éppen fordítva van: minden feledésbe merül, és semmi sem tehető jóvá. A jóvátétel (bosszú és megbocsátás) szerepét a feledés veszi át.
Forrás: Bölcsességek könyve, Szalay Könyvkiadó, 1999. ISBN 963-9178-27-6]
Milan Kundera idézetek
Milan Kundera: Idézetek angolul
Part I: Lost Letters (p. 22)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)
Kontextus: People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten.
“In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions.”
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
Kontextus: In the realm of totalitarian kitsch, all answers are given in advance and preclude any questions. It follows, then, that the true opponent of totalitarian kitsch is the person who asks questions. A question is like a knife that slices through the stage backdrop and gives us a look at what lies hidden behind it.
“When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.”
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body, pg 37
“Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality.”
Testaments Betrayed (1995), p. 7
Kontextus: Suspending moral judgment is not the immorality of the novel; it is its morality. The morality that stands against the ineradicable human habit of judging instantly, ceaselessly, and everyone; of judging before, and in the absence of, understanding. From the viewpoint of the novel’s wisdom, that fervid readiness to judge is the most detestable stupidity, the most pernicious evil.
“loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”
Forrás: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?”
pg 8
Forrás: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight
“Flirting is a promise of sexual intercourse without a guarantee.”
Forrás: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”
pg 111
Forrás: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Three: Words Misunderstood
“Chance and chance alone has a message for us… Only chance can speak to us.”
Forrás: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body, pg 48
“Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.”
Forrás: Laughable Loves
“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”
Forrás: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Forrás: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Three: Words Misunderstood
“To laugh is to live profoundly.”
Forrás: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
“A man is responsible for his ignorance.”
Forrás: Laughable Loves
“On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.”
Forrás: The Unbearable Lightness of Being