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Quotes About Youth

How would I explain to him that I couldn't make peace with him? How would I explain that if I did I would immediately lose my inner balance? How would I explain that one of the arms of my internal scales would suddenly shoot upward? How would I explain that my hatred of him counterbalanced the weight of evil that had fallen on my youth? How would I explain that he embodied all the evils in my life? How would I explain to him that I needed to hate him?
~ Milan Kundera
When young people's education is at stake, compromise is crime.
~ Milan Kundera
The young can't help playacting; themselves incomplete, they are thrust by life into a completed world where they are compelled to act fully grown. They therefore adopt forms, patterns, models— those that are in fashion, that suit, that please—and enact them.
~ Milan Kundera
Bu dünyada gençlik ve güzelliÄŸin bir anlam? yoktu; birbirinin t?pat?p eÅŸi, ruhlar? görünmez olmuÅŸ bedenlerle dolu uçsuz bucaks?z bir toplama kamp?ndan baÅŸka bir ÅŸey deÄŸildi yaÅŸad???m?z dünya.
~ Milan Kundera
That's the age people marry, have their first child, choose a profession. Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing.
~ Milan Kundera
Vê um jovem que se afasta da vida dela e se vai, parra sempre inacessível. Hipnotizada, nada pode fazer senão olhar esse pedaço da sua vida que se afasta, não pode senão olhá-lo e sofrer. Experimenta uma sensação inteiramente nova que se chama nostalgia.
~ Milan Kundera
The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it. This pronouncement seems to state the obvious and yet it is false. Men grow old, the end grows near, each moment becomes more and more valuable and there is no time to waste on recollection. It's important to understand the mathematical paradox in nostalgia, that it is most powerful in early youth , when the volume of life that has passed is quite small.
~ Milan Kundera
Il avait encore la peau recouverte d'acné juvénile et, pour que ça ne se voie pas, il portait sur son visage le masque de la révolte.
~ Milan Kundera
I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be. (I was frightened by the differences between one face and the next; none of them seemed to fit me properly, and I groped my way clumsily among them.
~ 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
Porque el joven era consciente a veces de que el mundo en que vive es un laberinto de valores cuya importancia intuye apenas vagamente y que, por lo tanto, sólo pueden dejar de ser valores aparentes y convertirse en valores reales cuando hayan sido confirmados
~ Milan Kundera
Poetry never plays a more important role than it does during revolutionary periods; poetry gave the revolution its voice and in return the revolution liberated poetry from isolation; the poet now knows he is being heard by the people, especially young people; for youth, poetry and revolution are one and the same.
~ Milan Kundera
Mladost je užasna; to je pozornica po kojoj na visokim štulama i u najrazli?itijim kostimima hodaju djeca i izgovaraju nau?ene rije?i koje tek napola razumiju, ali kojima su fanati?no odani.
~ Milan Kundera
I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be. (I was frightened by the differences between one face and the next; none of them seemed to fit me properly, and I groped my way clumsily among them.)
~ Milan Kundera
Just turned twenty. And from then on, everything was determined once and for all. I made one mistake then, a mistake that's hard to define and impossible to grasp, but one that determined my entire life and that I never managed to repair.
~ Milan Kundera
La maquinaria psicológica y fisiológica del amor es tan compleja que en determinada época de su vida, un joven debe concentrar toda su energía casi exclusivamente en aprender a manejarla.
~ Milan Kundera
J'avais plusieurs visages parce que j'étais jeune et que je ne savais pas moi-même qui j'étais et qui je voulais être.
~ Milan Kundera
No es culpa de los jóvenes el que actúen; no están hechos el todo, pero se encuentran en un mundo que ya está hecho y tienen que actuar como hechos.
~ Milan Kundera
Por uma certa parte de nós mesmos, vivemos todos além do tempo. Talvez só tomemos consciência da nossa idade em certos momentos excepcionais, sendo, na maior parte do tempo, uns sem-idade
~ Milan Kundera
Tandis qu'il se mouvait sur elle, en avant puis en arrière, il lui semblait décrire sans cesse le même mouvement, de l'enfance à l'âge adulte puis en sens inverse, et encore une fois du petit garçon qui regardait misérablement un gigantesque corps de femme à l'homme qui étreint ce corps et le dompte. Ce mouvement, qui mesure habituellement quinze centimètres à peine, était long comme trois décennies.
~ Milan Kundera
the young can't help but acting; they're immature, but they're placed in a mature world and have to act as if they were mature. So they put on whatever masks and disguises appeal to them and can be made to fit -- and thy act.
~ Milan Kundera
Kuni inimesed on veel noored ja nende helitöö on alles esimeste taktide juures, võivad nad seda kirjutada ühiselt ja teineteisega motiive vahetada, ent kui nad kohtuvad ja on juba vanad, siis nende helitöö on enam vähem lõpetatud, iga ese tähendab midagi muud nii ühe kui teise helitöös.
~ Milan Kundera
Ahora comprobaba que aquellos años eran más hermosos en el recuerdo que cuando los había vivido
~ Milan Kundera
Exist? un anumit num?r de întreb?ri feminine clasice, pe care orice b?rbat le afl? mai devreme sau mai târziu în viaÈ›a sa, întreb?ri pentru care institutele de înv???mânt ar trebui s? preg?teasc? tineretul studios.
~ Milan Kundera