We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.
Milan KunderaHe Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.
Milan KunderaLove is a continual interrogation. I don’t know of a better definition of love.
Milan KunderaWhen the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.
Milan KunderaHumanity's true moral test, its fundamental test, consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect humankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.
Milan Kundera... buku adalah emblem dari persaudaraan rahasia. Karena ia hanya memunyai satu senjata untuk memerangi dunia kekasaran yang mengelilinginya, yaitu buku-buku...
... yang lebih penting lagi adalah buku-buku novel yang telah dibacanya...
she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.
Milan Kunderait is wrong to chide the novel for being fascinated by mysterious coincidences... but it is right to chide man for being blind to such coincidences in his daily life. For he thereby deprives his life a dimension of beauty.
Milan Kunderafor there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
Milan KunderaMots clés compassion empathy
loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.
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