Milan Kundera

I have to lie, if I don't want to take madmen seriously and become a madman myself ↗

— Milan Kundera

#love

For existential mathematics, which does not exist, would probably propose this equation: the value of coincidence equals the degree of its improbability. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#coincidence #equality

عشق ورزی چون رقص است.انسان همیشه دیگری را همراه خود میکشاند. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#time #beauty

The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#dictatorship

We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? ↗

— Milan Kundera

#life

Revolution in Love’. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity? ↗

— Milan Kundera

#love #marriage #monogamy #promiscuity #life

Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#love

Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#love #senses #sensuality #love

History is as light as individual human life, unbearably light, light as a feather, as dust swirling into the air, as whatever will no longer exist tomorrow. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#lightness #life

The novel's spirit is the spirit of complexity. . . . The novel's spirit is the spirity of continuity . . . a thing made to last, to connect the past with the future. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#art