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Quotes from Milan Kundera

Sólo la casualidad puede aparecer ante nosotros como un mensaje.
~ Milan Kundera
Silence lay between them like an agony.
~ Milan Kundera
the whole mystery
~ Milan Kundera
I don't know whether my nation will perish and I don't know which of my characters is right. I invent stories, confront one with another, and by this means i ask questions. The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
~ Milan Kundera
O mesmo cineasta do subconsciente que de dia lhe enviava pedaços da paisagem natal como imagens de felicidade, organizava-lhe de noite, regressos aterradores ao seu país. O dia era iluminado pela beleza do país abandonado, a noite pelo terror de lá voltar. O fia mostrava-lhe o paraíso que perdera, a noite o inferno de onde fugira.
~ Milan Kundera
Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia.
~ Milan Kundera
Aukš?iausias moralumas yra b?ti nenaudingam
~ Milan Kundera
Pa što ako nam se ne svi?a podignuti prst, dovoljno je da mu okrenemo le?a. Tako sam i u?inio i krenuo iz dvorišta ponovno na ulicu.
~ Milan Kundera
via nas lágrimas tentáculos que queriam apanhá-lo para o arrancarem ao idílio do seu não-destino: as lágrimas repugnavam-lhe.
~ Milan Kundera
Gelecek kimsenin umrunda olmayan, ilgisiz bir boÅŸluktur, geçmiÅŸ ise yaÅŸam doludur, k?zd?r?r, baÅŸkald?rt?r, yaralar, o kadar ki bu yüzden onu yok etmek ya da yeniden yaratmak isteriz. GeleceÄŸe egemen olmak istenilmesinin nedeni, geçmiÅŸi deÄŸiÅŸtirecek güce sahip olmaktan baÅŸka birÅŸey deÄŸildir.
~ Milan Kundera
Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.
~ Milan Kundera
O bom Deus foi injusto ao dar um rosto tão belo àquele imbecil e pernas curtas a Lermontov. Mas se o poeta não ter pernas compridas, possui um espírito sarcástico que o puxa para as alturas.
~ Milan Kundera
She looked at him with love in her eyes, but she feared the night ahead, feared her dreams. Her life was split. Both day and night were competing for her.
~ Milan Kundera
Sabe que só o abraço da morte pode apaziguá-lo, esse abraço que ele preencherá com o corpo todo e com a alma inteira e onde enfim achará a sua grandeza; sabe que só a morte pode vingá-lo e acusar de assassínio os que o escarnecem.
~ Milan Kundera
I have become so pessimistic that these days I'd even choose the truth over friendship.
~ Milan Kundera
Never had she let herself go in this way with another body, and never had another body let itself go with her in this way. Her lover could play with her belly, but he had never lived in there; he could touch her breast, but he never drunk from it.
~ Milan Kundera
You were like flames that must dance and leap to exist at all.
~ Milan Kundera
Einmal ist keinmal. What happens but once might as well not have happened at all.
~ Milan Kundera
Y llegó a la conclusión de que la cuestión fundamental no es: ¿sabían o no sabían? sino: ¿es inocente un hombre cuando no sabe?, ¿un idiota que ocupa el trono está libre de toda culpa sólo por ser idiota?
~ Milan Kundera
Não posso evocar essas velhas culturas antigas sem uma espécie de nostalgia. De nostalgia e inveja, ao pensar sem dúvida na suave lentidão da história naquele tempo.
~ Milan Kundera
El amor tiende a hacer una leyenda de sí mismo y a mitificar retrospectivamente sus comienzos.
~ Milan Kundera
Ze wilde hun vertellen dat achter het communisme, achter het fascisme, achter alle bezettingen en invallen een wezenlijker en algemener kwaad schuilde; het beeld van dat kwaad is voor haar een optocht van marcherende mensen geworden die de handen heffen en eenstemmig dezelfde lettergrepen schreeuwen. Maar ze wist dat ze hun niet kon uitleggen. Verlegen bracht ze het gesprek op een ander onderwerp.
~ Milan Kundera
Onun tümüyle kendisinin olmas?n?, kendisini bütün varl???yla ona vermeyi istiyordu, ama ona her ÅŸeyi vermeye ne kadar çok çabalarsa, pek derin olmayan, yüzeysel bir aÅŸk?n ya da flört etmenin gerektirdiÄŸi ÅŸeyleri genç adamdan esirgediÄŸi duygusuna da o kadar çok kap?l?yordu.Kendisini ciddiliÄŸi hafiflikle birleÅŸtirememekle k?n?yordu.
~ Milan Kundera
behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison.
~ Milan Kundera