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Milan Kundera Quotes
«Mankind's true moral test, its fundamental test (which lies deeply buried from view), consists of its attitude towards those who are at its mercy: animals. And in this respect mankind has suffered a fundamental debacle, a debacle so fundamental that all others stem from it.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
buried, debacle, fundamental, stem, stemmed, suffered
«Happiness is the longing for repetition.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Happiness
| Keywords:
longing, repetition, repetitions
«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.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Love,
Metaphor
| Keywords:
enters, poetic
«A wave of anger washed over me, anger against myself, at my age at the time, that stupid lyrically age, when a man is too great a riddle to himself to be interested in the riddles outside himself and when other people are mere walking mirrors in which he is amazed to find his own emotions, his own worth.»
«We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice - and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.»
Author: Milan Kundera
(Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
antipathies, antipathy, establish, malice, power play, predetermined, predetermines, relations