What he did succeed in seeing behind him in his mind's eye was tiny, compressed like a closed accordion.
Milan KunderaMetaphors are dangerous, Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.
Milan KunderaTags: love metaphors milan-kundera
As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about.
But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?
Tags: writing possibility character author
I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself
Milan KunderaTags: eduard-and-god
For the body is temporal and thought is eternal and the shimmering essence of flame is an image of thought.
Milan KunderaThe more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.
Milan KunderaHe was down and out, the Catholics took him in, and before he knew it, he had faith. So it was gratitude that decided the issue, most likely. Human decisions are terribly simple.
Milan KunderaI understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to improve the world. I have told you what I think, and that is all. I shall remain your friend even if you act contrary to my convictions, and I shall help you even if I disagree with you.
Milan KunderaTags: friendship freedom-of-thought kundera
A long time ago, man would listen in amazement to the sound of regular beats in
his chest, never suspecting what they were. He was unable to identify himself
with so alien and unfamiliar an object as the body. The body was a cage, and
inside that cage was something which looked, listened, feared, thought, and
marveled; that something, that remainder left over after the body had been
accounted for, was the soul.
Misery and pride. 'On horseback, death and a peacock'.
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