Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Quotes from book
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera
Original title
Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí
(Czech, 1984)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being is a 1984 novel by Milan Kundera, about two women, two men, a dog and their lives in the 1968 Prague Spring period of Czechoslovak history. Although written in 1982, the novel was not published until two years later, in a French translation . The original Czech text was published the following year.
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Three: Words Misunderstood
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Three: Words Misunderstood, Ch. 10
pg 33
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight
“Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end.”
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Three: Words Misunderstood
“We can regard the gulag as a septic tank used by totalitarian kitsch to dispose of its refuse.”
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
pg 28
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
pg 208
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
“To love someone out of compassion means not really to love.”
pg 20
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight
“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect some day to suffer vertigo.”
pg 56
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body
“Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.”
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Six: The Grand March, Ch. 29
“Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.”
pg 209
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
Pg 50
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body
pg 51
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body
pg 236
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
