Quotes by : Milan Kundera

As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation,....

And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle it runs ahead in a straight....

The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance....

for the first time in his life, sex is located away from all danger, away from conflict and drama, away....

Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo. What is vertigo? Fear....

Never had she let herself go in this way with another body, and never had another body let itself go....

We will never remember anything by sitting in one place waiting for the memories to come back to us of....

If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to....

Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination....