More from Milan Kundera

  1. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.
  2. I can't shake off the idea that after death you keep being alive. That to be dead is to live an endless nightmare.
  3. Love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.
  4. This is the real and the only reason for friendship: to provide a mirror so the other person can contemplate his image from the past, which…
  5. The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that …
  6. It is always that way: between the moment he meets her again and the moment he recognizes her for the woman he loves, he has some distance …
  7. 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…
  8. 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?

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