Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness Of Being

Quotes

• “Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it...”
• “Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear of falling? No, Ver...”
• “For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the public: the momen...”
• “Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love do...”
• “Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they wo...”
• “He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the hal...”
• “Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened...”
• “Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified s...”
• “And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That...”
• “Dogs do not have many advantages over people, but one of them is extremely important: euthanasia is not forbidden by law...”
• “Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor ...”
• “But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?”
• “When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
• “The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man.”
• “Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”
• “I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.”