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Only animals were not expelled from Paradise.
MILAN KUNDERA, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Optimism is the opium of the people.
Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.
MILAN KUNDERA, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering calls for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends.
Immortality no longer interests the weary old man at all.
MILAN KUNDERA, Immortality
Nudity is the uniform of the other side ... nudity is a shroud.
MILAN KUNDERA, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
War and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one another. When one comes to an end, the other will end also and one cannot end without the other. The fact that no war has broken out in Europe for fifty years is connected in some mysterious way with the fact that for fifty years no new Picasso has appeared either.
MILAN KUNDERA, Immortality
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