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Milan Kundera Quotes

Milan Kundera quotes about personality

Czechoslovakian Writer April 1, 1929

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She began to teeter as she walked, fell almost daily, bumped into things or, at the very least, dropped objects. She was in the grip of an insuperable longing to fall. She lived in a constant state of vertigo. 'Pick me up,' is the message of a person who keeps falling. Milan Kundera
He thought: that's certainly how it starts. One day a person puts his legs up on a bench, then night comes and he falls asleep. That's how it happens that one fine day a person joins the tramps and turns into one of them. Milan Kundera
How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more Milan Kundera
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but the ignominy, the humiliation we feel that we must be what we are without any choice in the matter, and that this humiliation is seen by everyone. Milan Kundera
What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual "I" is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered. Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera quote: "Pick me up," is the message of a person who keeps falling...."
Pick me up," is the message of a person who keeps falling. Tomas kept picking her up, patiently. Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera quote: "The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but..."
The basis of shame is not some personal mistake of ours, but that this humiliation is seen by everyone Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera quote: "A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an..."
A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person. Milan Kundera
A gesture cannot be regarded as the expression of an individual, as his creation (because no individual is capable of creating a fully original gesture, belonging to nobody else), nor can it even be regarded as that person's instrument; on the contrary, it is gestures that use us as their instruments, as their bearers and incarnations Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera quote: "When a person is clubbed violently on the head, he collapses..."
When a person is clubbed violently on the head, he collapses and stops breathing. Some day, he will stop breathing anyway. Milan Kundera

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