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Milan Kundera Quotes

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Czechoslovakian Writer April 1, 1929

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In spite of their love, they had made each other's life a hell. The fact that they loved each other was merely proof that the fault lay not in themselves, in their behavior or inconstancy of feeling, but rather in their incompatibility: he was strong and she was weak. Milan Kundera
Living for Sabina meant seeing. Seeing is limited by two borders: strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Perhaps that was what motivated Sabina's distaste for all extremism. Extremes mean borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death. Milan Kundera
But deep down she said to herself, Franz maybe strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he's loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goodness. Franz would never give Sabina orders. He would never command her, as Tomas had, to lay the mirror on the floor and walk back and forth on it naked. Not that he lacks sensuality; he simply lacks the strength to give orders. There are things that can be accomplished only by violence.... Milan Kundera
But deep down she said to herself, Franz may be strong, but his strength is directed outward; when it comes to the people he lives with, the people he loves, he's weak. Franz's weakness is called goodness. Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera quote: "I have a strong will to love you for eternity."
I have a strong will to love you for eternity. Milan Kundera
She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don't let me go, hold me tight, make me your plaything, your slave, be strong! But they were words she could not say. The only thing she said when he released her from his embrace was, "You don't know how happy I am to be with you." That was the most her reserved nature allowed her to express. Milan Kundera
What? We feel aesthetic pleasure at a sonata by Beethoven and not at one with the same style and charm if it comes from one of our own contemporaries? Isn't that the height of hypocrisy? So then the sensation of beauty is not spontaneous, spurred by our sensibility, but instead is cerebral, conditioned by our knowing a date? No way around it: historical consciousness is so thoroughly inherent in our perception of art that this anachronism (a Beethoven piece written today) would be... Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera quote: "But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak..."
But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave. Milan Kundera
Milan Kundera quote: "Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds,..."
Seeing is limited by two borders: Strong light, which blinds, and total darkness. Milan Kundera
she thought that after what she had been through during the invasion she would stop being petty and grow up, grow wise and strong, but she had overestimated herself Milan Kundera

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