Milan Kundera: Citáty anglicky

Milan Kundera byl český básník, dramatik a romanopisec. Citáty anglicky.
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“Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.”

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Milan Kundera kniha Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí

Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his life?) only two or three were really essential and unforgettable. The rest were mere echoes, imitations, repetitions, or reminiscences.”

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Milan Kundera kniha Kniha smíchu a zapomnění

Zdroj: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“To rebel against being born a woman seemed as foolish to her as to take pride in it.”

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Milan Kundera kniha Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí

Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?”

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Milan Kundera kniha Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí

Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.”

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Milan Kundera kniha Kniha smíchu a zapomnění

Part Four: Lost Letters (p. 106)
Zdroj: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)
Kontext: The proliferation of mass graphomania among politicians, cab drivers, women on the delivery table, mistresses, murderers, criminals, prostitutes, police chiefs, doctors, and patients proves to me that every individual without exception bears a potential writer within himself and that all mankind has every right to rush out into the streets with a cry of "We are all writers!"
The reason is that everyone has trouble accepting the fact that he will disappear unheard of and unnoticed in an indifferent universe, and everyone wants to make himself into a universe of words before it's too late.
Once the writer in every individual comes to life (and that time is not far off), we are in for an age of universal deafness and lack of understanding.

“Jealousy isn't a pleasant quality, but if it isn't overdone (and if it's combined with modesty), apart from its inconvenience there's even something touching about it.”

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Milan Kundera kniha Laughable Loves

Zdroj: Laughable Loves

“It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.”

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Milan Kundera kniha Encounter

Zdroj: Encounter

“Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of great distress.”

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Milan Kundera kniha Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí

Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body, p 49

“I have no mission. No one has.”

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Milan Kundera kniha Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí

Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“The moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice.”

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pg 160
Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Four: Soul and Body

“A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limits of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.”

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Milan Kundera kniha Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí

Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.”

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Milan Kundera kniha Nesmrtelnost

Zdroj: Immortality

“Only the most naive of questions are truly serious.”

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Milan Kundera kniha Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí

Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“In Tereza's eyes, books were the emblems of a secret brotherhood”

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Milan Kundera kniha Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí

Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.”

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Milan Kundera kniha Nesnesitelná lehkost bytí

Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“I cannot hate them because nothing binds me to them; I have nothing in common with them.”

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Milan Kundera kniha Nesmrtelnost

Zdroj: Immortality

“The moment someone keeps an eye on what we do, we involuntarily make allowances for that eye, and nothing we do is truthful. Having a public, keeping a public in mind, means living in lies…”

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Zdroj: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Children, Never look Back!" and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.”

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Milan Kundera kniha Kniha smíchu a zapomnění

Zdroj: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting