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Famous Milan Kundera Quotes
“In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.”
“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect someday to suffer vertigo.”
“Metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with.”
“Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.”
“Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.”
“When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.”
“loves are like empires: when the idea they are founded on crumbles, they, too, fade away.”
“And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself?”
“But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.”
“A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.”
“We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold.”