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“She loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It differentiated her from the others”
Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”
Milan Kundera kniha Identity
Identity (1998), p. 78
Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“The eye… the point where a person's identity is concentrated.”
Milan Kundera kniha Identity
Identity (1998), pg 63
Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.”
Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Pg 5
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight
Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
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 kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being
pg 233
Zdroj: 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 kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being
pg 71
Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body
“In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia.”
Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Zdroj: 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 kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being
pg 27
Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight
“There is no perfection only life”
Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“A single metaphor can give birth to love.”
Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being
pg 10
Varianta: Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part One: Lightness and Weight
“I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.”
Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Interview with Christian Salmon (Fall 1983), Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Series Seven [Viking, 1988, ], pp. 217-218
Kontext: Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body, p. 59
“What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person.”
Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
Kontext: What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual "I" is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered.
“Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him?”
Interview with Christian Salmon (Fall 1983), Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, Series Seven [Viking, 1988, ], pp. 217-218
Kontext: Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away by his unequaled imagination, they look for allegories — and come up with nothing but clichés: life is absurd (or it is not absurd), God is beyond reach (or within reach), etc. You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true.”
Milan Kundera kniha The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
Part I: Lost Letters (p. 22)
The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)
Kontext: 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.
Milan Kundera kniha The Unbearable Lightness of Being
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Five: Lightness and Weight
Kontext: Whenever a single political movement corners power, we find ourselves in the realm of totalitarian kitsch. When I say “totalitarian,” what I mean is that everything that infringes on kitsch must be banished for life: every display of individualism (because a deviation from the collective is a spit in the eye of the smiling brotherhood); every doubt (because anyone who starts doubting details will end by doubting life itself); all irony (because in the realm of kitsch everything must be taken quite seriously); and the mother who abandons her family or the man who prefers men to women, thereby calling into question the holy decree “Be fruitful and multiply.”
