Maxioms by Milan Kundera
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
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.
Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world. That’s beautiful.
Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world. That’s beautiful.
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.
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.
