Milan Kundera Quotes

“In eroticism as dance: one of the partners is always charged with leading the other.”

“No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.”

“Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.”

“Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.”

“Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable”

“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 fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end.”

“Scepticism does not abolish the world, it turns it into questions.”

“Solitude: a sweet absence of looks.”

“Speak truth to power.”

“Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.”

“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.”

“You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.”