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Quotes About World

the world has become man's right and everything in it has become a right: the desire for love the right to love, the desire for rest the right to rest, the desire for friendship the right to friendship, the desire to exceed the speed limit the right to exceed the speed limit, the desire for happiness the right to happiness, the desire to publish a book the right to publish a book, the desire to shout in the street in the middle of the night the right to shout in the street.
~ Milan Kundera
We wanted to destroy the world. With our messianism we nearly destroyed it. Maybe they with their selfishness will save it.
~ Milan Kundera
Lermontov became a soldier, escaping from her grandmother and her troublesome love. He exchanged the pen, which is the key to one's soul, for a pistol, which is the key to the gates of the world.
~ Milan Kundera
Perhaps New York's unintentional beauty is much richer and more varied than the excessively strict and composed beauty of human design. But it's not our European beauty. It's an alien world.
~ Milan Kundera
I say, indeed: consolation in the nonsentience of nature. For nonsentience is consoling; the world of nonsentience is the world outside human life; it is eternity; it is the sea gone off with the sun (Rimbaud).
~ Milan Kundera
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them. Each one has crossed a border that I myself have cirumvented. It is that crossed border (the border beyond which my own I ends) which attracts me most. For beyond that border begins the secret the novel asks about. The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become.
~ Milan Kundera
Ningún movimiento que se plantee transformar el mundo soporta la burla ni el desprecio.
~ Milan Kundera
Y así es como funciona el mundo que nos rodea. Si insistiese en decirle la verdad a la cara, eso significaría que me lo tomo en serio. Y tomarse en serio algo tan poco serio significa perder la seriedad. Yo, hermano, tengo que mentir si no quiero tomarme en serio a los locos y convertirme yo mismo en uno de los locos.
~ Milan Kundera
He has sent her back to the world she tried to escape...
~ Milan Kundera
Since its beginnings, Western music is bound, by an insurmountable convention, to the need to express subjectivity. It stands against the harsh sound of the outside world just as the sensitive soul stands against the insensibility of the universe.
~ Milan Kundera
Change the world! In Pontevin's view, what a monstrous goal! Not because the world is so admirable as it is but because any change leads inevitably to something worse.
~ Milan Kundera
Le roman n'est pas une confession de l'auteur, mais une exploration de ce qu'est la vie humaine dans le piège qu'est devenu le monde.
~ 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
B?i trong th? giá»›i này, chuy?n gì cÅ©ng ???c tha th? trước nên, cách ??y vô tâm, ng??i ta s?n sàng cho phép chúng x?y ra.
~ Milan Kundera
From that time on she had known that beauty is a world betrayed. The only way we can encounter it is if its persecutors have overlooked it somewhere.
~ Milan Kundera
Y como en aquel momento no tenía nada con que obsequiar al mundo, obsequiaba a Klara. Al menos con promesas
~ Milan Kundera
But the world was too ugly, and no one decided to rise up out of the grave.
~ Milan Kundera
Una novela no es una confesión del autor, sino una investigación sobre lo que es la vida humana dentro de la trampa en que se ha convertido el mundo.
~ Milan Kundera
La bellezza è un mondo tradito. La possiamo incontrare solo quando i persecutori l'hanno dimenticata per errore da qualche parte.
~ Milan Kundera
Frequent mists swirling across the countryside drifted between me and the populated land, so that the world was as it was on the fifth day of creation, when God was still undecided whether he should hand it over to Man.
~ Milan Kundera
A schimbat pana, cheia ce deschide sufletul poetului, pe un pistol, cheia ce deschide porÈ›ile lumii. C?ci atunci când expediem un glonte în pieptul unui om e ca È™i când am p?trunde noi înÈ™ine în pieptul acestuia; iar pieptul altuia înseamn? lumea.
~ Milan Kundera
He looked down at her and realized how lovely she was and how difficult it would be to tear himself away. But the world beyond the window was even more beautiful. And if he was leaving a beloved woman for its sake, then that world would be even more enhanced by the price of a betrayed love.
~ Milan Kundera
En nuestro mundo, en el que hay cada vez más rostros cada vez más parecidos, es difícil para una persona confirmar la originalidad de su yo y convencerse a sí misma de su irrepetible unicidad.
~ Milan Kundera
That was what the dream was meant to tell Tomas, what Tereza was unable to tell himself. She had come to her, to escape her mother's world, a world where all bodies were equal. She had drawn an equal sign between her and the rest of them: she kissed them all alike, made no absolutely no distinction between Tereza's body and the other bodies. He had sent her back into the world she tried to escape, sent her to march naked with the other naked woman.
~ Milan Kundera