Quotes from book
Slowness

Name: Slowness
Author: Milan Kundera

Milan KunderaOriginal title La Lenteur (French, 1994)

Slowness , published in 1995 in France, is a novel written in French by Milan Kundera. In the book, Kundera manages to weave together a number of plot lines, characters and themes in just over 150 pages. While the book has a narrative, it mainly serves as a way for Kundera to describe a philosophy about modernity, technology, memory and sensuality.

“The degree of slowness is directionally proportional to the intensity of memory. The degree of speed is directionally proportional to the intensity of forgetting.”

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“She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.”

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“Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.”

Milan Kundera book Slowness

Slowness (1995)