Milan Kundera

The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#freedom

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

— Milan Kundera

#beauty

But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science , instantly fades away. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#age

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

— Milan Kundera

#love

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#mind #being

First he sympathized with Cuba, then with China, and when the cruelty of their regimes began to appall him, he resigned himself with a sigh to a sea of words with no weight and no resemblance to life. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#life

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. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#poetic #profound #sabina #tereza #tomas

The Greek word for "return" is nostos. Algos means "suffering." So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#nostalgia #vocabulary #suffering

I sometimes have the feeling that her entire life was merely a continuation of her mother's, much as the course of a ball on the billiard table is merely the continuation of the player's arm movement. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#life

I want you to be weak. As weak as I am. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#love