Milan Kundera

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.

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.

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

The reign of imagagology begins where history ends.

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to read more

Mysticism and exaggeration go together. A mystic must not fear ridicule if he is to push all the way to the limits of humility or the limits of delight.

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

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