Author: Milan Kundera

Quotes

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

- Milan Kundera

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

- Milan Kundera

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

People are going deaf because music is played louder and louder, but because they're going deaf, it has to be played louder still.

- Milan Kundera

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

- Milan Kundera

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

- Milan Kundera

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

All great novels, all true novels, are bisexual.

- Milan Kundera

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.

- Milan Kundera

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

- Milan Kundera

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

- Milan Kundera

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