Milan Kundera

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with read more

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman read more

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.

O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you’ve brought breakfast in bed you’ll have to bring it read more

O lovers! Be careful in those dangerous first days! Once you’ve brought breakfast in bed you’ll have to bring it forever, unless you want to be accused of lovelessness and betrayal.

Optimism is the opium of the people.

Optimism is the opium of the people.

Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.

Nudity is the uniform of the other side... nudity is a shroud.