Author of quotes: Milan Kundera

To be a woman for Sabina - a fate she did not choose. But what we don't choose neither our merit nor our bad luck.

Imagine that you live in a world where there are no mirrors. You would think about your face, you would represent it as an external image of what is inside you. And then, when you would have been forty, who for the first time in my life I framed you mirror. Imagine this nightmare. You would see a completely alien face. And you clearly would have suffered, what can not grasp: your face is not you.

I save my sensitivity for more suitable occasions. Those who are wasting this property left and right, you can lose it in a moment when in it there is a special need.

- The trouble is, said Skreta after a long brooding silence, ' that you're surrounded by idiots! I don't anybody in this town to ask for advice? Intelligent people are born in absolute exile. Because of their profession, I am only busy with this thought: humanity is the fruit of an incredible amount of idiots. The more stupid the individual, the greater his desire to multiply. Full of personality produce no more than one child, and the best of them, like you, come to a decision not to breed. It's a disaster. I dream of a world in which man would be born not in a foreign environment, and among his brothers.

People may be wholly itself only when wholly owned by others.

Jakub noticed that the first time she sees a man so passionately believe in God and able to live in such luxury.
- It's probably because you've never seen a true Christian. The word "gospel", as you know, means "good news." To enjoy life is the most important Testament of Christ.

... Sex is not love, only that love appropriates.

Man, riding a motorcycle can focus only on the next second of his race; he clings to a piece of time separated from the past and from the future; he unplugged from the continuity of time; he is outside of it; in other words, he is in a state of ecstasy, he knows nothing about his age or about his wife, children, chores and, therefore, not afraid of anything, because the source of fear - in the future, and it is liberated from the future and he had nothing to fear.

So I say to you, or a woman is the future of man, or humanity will perish, because only a woman can cherish unfounded hope, and call us in a dubious future in which we, not whether the women has long ceased to believe.

To live: carry your sick "I" in the world.

It sickened him to jerk, which makes life a half-life, and of the people - demi.

Worst of all is not that the world is unfree, but that people have forgotten how to be free.

The great thing about dreams is an incredible meeting of people and things which in ordinary life would never have happened; in the dream the boat can sail into the bedroom window, where on the bed lay a woman twenty years dead...

You think the past is behind us, already something complete and unchangeable? Oh no, the robe is sewn of iridescent taffeta, and each time, looking back, we see the past in other colors.