Quotes by : Milan Kundera

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

and she realized that she (her soul) was not at all involved, only her body, her body alone. The body....

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

Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs, the country ravished daily by new hordes, all his neighbors....

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

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

For a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic....

For Sabina, living in truth, lying neither to ourselves nor to others, was possible only away from the....

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

A young woman forced to keep drunks supplied with beer and siblings with cleanunderwear—instead of....