Milan Kundera

Love Quotes

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. -
Milan Kundera
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Love Quotes

Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company. -
Milan Kundera

Love Quotes

Physical love is unthinkable without violence. -
Milan Kundera
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Relationships Quotes

So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game. -
Milan Kundera

Romance Quotes

Tereza knew what happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus responds to his voice. -
Milan Kundera
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Friendship Quotes

Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics. -
Milan Kundera