Quotes by : Milan Kundera

Such are the Splendors and Miseries of memory: it is proud of its ability to keep truthful track of the....

Brod was a brilliant intellectual with exceptional energy; a generous man willing to do battle for others;....

All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being,....

A novel examines not reality but existence. And existence is not what has occurred, existence is the....

Who was the real me? I can only repeat: I was a man of many faces.At meetings I was earnest, enthusiastic,....

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way....

We pass through the present with our eyes blindfolded. We are permitted merely to sense and guess at....

...no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach....

You certainly remember this scene from dozens of films: a boy and a girl are running hand in hand in....

Keep this in mind: it is our religion to praise life. The word "life” is the king of words. The king­word....