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Quotes About Conflict

Let the planet be convulsed with exploding bombs.
~ Milan Kundera
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
Allí donde habla el corazón es de mala educación que la razón lo contradiga
~ Milan Kundera
Yürek konuÅŸtuÄŸunda, ak?l kar?? koymay? yak???ks?z bulur.
~ Milan Kundera
Cuando uno ataca otro tiene que retroceder, no hay más remedio. La retirada, como todos saben, es la más difícil de las maniobras militares
~ Milan Kundera
Her life was split. Both day and night were competing for her.
~ Milan Kundera
In spite of their love, they had made each other's life a hell.
~ Milan Kundera
And in fact, Soviet films, which flooded the cinemas of all Communist countries in that cruelest of times, were saturated with incredible innocence and chastity. The greatest conflict tat could occur between two Russians was a lovers' misunderstanding: he thought she no longer loved him; she thought he no longer loved her. But in the final scene they would fall into each others' arms, tears of happiness trickling down their cheeks.
~ Milan Kundera
Ze stelde zich op als een ordinair wijf dat niet wist hoe ze hem moest kwetsen.
~ Milan Kundera
for the first time in his life, sex is located away from all danger, away from conflict and drama, away from persecution, away from any accusation, away from worries; he has nothing to take care of, love is taking care of him, love as he's always wanted it and never had it: love-repose; love-oblivion; love-desertion; love-carefreeness; love-meaningless.
~ Milan Kundera
Love is a battle? said Franz. Well, I don't feel at all like fighting. And he left.
~ Milan Kundera
Erotizam je komercijalno dvosmislen, jer premda svi priželjkuju erotski život, svi ga tako?er mrze kao uzrok svojih nesre?a, frustracija, zavisti, kompleksa, patnji.
~ 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
Wi?c o co ci chodzi? - O mi?o?? - u?miechn??a si?. - O mi?o??? - zdziwi? si? Franz. - Mi?o?? to walka - u?miechn??a si? Marie-Claude. - B?d? walczy? d?ugo. A? do ko?ca. - Mi?o?? to walka? Nie mam najmniejszej ch?ci walczy? - powiedzia? Franz i wyszed?.
~ Milan Kundera
Between the whores' world and God's world, like a river dividing two empires, stretches an intense smell of urine.
~ Milan Kundera
Then what do you care about?' 'Love', she said with a smile. 'Love?' Franz asked in amazement. 'Love is a battle', said Marie-Claude, still smiling. 'And I plan to go on fighting. To the end.' 'Love is a battle? said Franz. 'Well, I don't feel at all like fighting.' And he left.
~ Milan Kundera
Capcana înÈ™el?toare a urii const? în aceea c? ne leag? într-o strâns? îmbr??iÈ™are cu adversarul
~ Milan Kundera
the Russian invasion was not only a tragedy; it was a carnival of hate
~ Milan Kundera
A armadilha do ódio é que ele nos prende muito intimamente ao adversário
~ Milan Kundera
It's hard to live with people willing to send you to exile or death. It's hard to become intimate with them. It's hard to love them.
~ Milan Kundera
Se divorziamo, in fondo nonn cambierà nulla! Non perderai nulla! Ti lascio tutto quello che ho! -Non è questione di quello che mi lasci - disse lei. -E allora di che? -Di amore - sorrise lei. -Di amore? - si meraviglió Franz. -L'amore è lotta - disse Marie- Claude, sempre soridendo. -Lotterò a lungo. Fino alla fine. -L'amore è lotta? Io non ho nessunissima voglia di lottare. - disse Franz e usci.
~ Milan Kundera
Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said. "Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly. Sabina realized two things: first, that Franz's words were noble and just; second, that they disqualified him from her love life.
~ Milan Kundera
Sabina once allowed herself to be taken along to a gathering of fellow emigres. As usual, they were hashing over whether they should or should not have taken up arms against the Russians. In the safety of emigration, they all naturally came out in favor of fighting. Sabina said: Then why don't you go back and fight?
~ Milan Kundera
Quando parla il cuore non sta bene che la ragione trovi da obiettare.
~ Milan Kundera