Top 67 Quotes About Love Milan Kundera

#1. There was not a scrap of tangible evidence to show that he had spent the most wonderful year of his life with her.
Which only increased his desire to remain faithful to her.

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#2. Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.

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#3. It's hard to live with people willing to send you to exile or death. It's hard to become intimate with them. It's hard to love them.

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#4. Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two separate passions, not merely different but opposite. Love does not make itself felt in the desire for copulation (a desire that extends to an infinite number of women) but in the desire for shared sleep (a desire limited to one woman).

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#5. [ ... ] when it's a question of wahre Liebe, true love, the beloved hardly matters.

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#6. Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's beautiful.

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#7. In spite of their love, they had made each other's life a hell. The fact that they loved each other was merely proof that the fault lay not in themselves, in their behavior or inconstancy of feeling, but rather in their incompatibility: he was strong and she was weak.

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#8. I have said before that metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor.

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#9. Any schoolboy can do experiments in the physics laboratory to test various scientific hypothesis. But man, because he has only one life to live, cannot conduct experiments to test whether to follow his passion or not.

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#10. She had experienced something beautiful, and he had failed to experience it with her. The two ways in which their memories reacted to the evening storm sharply delimit love and non-love.

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#11. I have a strong will to love you for eternity.

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#12. Joking is a barrier between man and the world. Joking is the enemy of love and poetry.

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#13. 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.

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#14. I want you to be weak. As weak as I am.

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#15. By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, "it," he paved the way for other words, words that would reflect physical love as in a set of mirrors.

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#16. Love is a desire for that lost half of ourselves.

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#17. Then there is the third category, the category of people who need to be constantly before the eyes of the person they love. Their situation is a dangerous as the situation in the first category. One day the eyes of their beloved will close, and the room will go dark.

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#18. No love can survive muteness.

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#19. In the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.

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#20. The only person who had ever really interrogated her was her husband, and that was because love is a constant interrogation.

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#21. Love begins with a metaphor, which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetice memory.
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#22. But just make someone who has fallen in love listen to his stomach rumble, and the unity of body and soul, that lyrical illusion of the age of science , instantly fades away.

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#23. The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful ... 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.

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#24. For he was aware of the great secret of life: Women don't look for handsome men. Women look for men who have had beautiful women. Having an ugly mistress is therefore a fatal mistake.

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#25. Revolution in Love'. Can you tell me what you mean by that? Do you want free love as against bourgeois marriage, or monogamy as against bourgeois promiscuity?

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#26. After all, when you give someone a present, you want to do so out of love, you want to give your friend a piece of heart!

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#27. Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

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#28. Through the air floated only important words, and Flajsman said to himself that love has but one true measure, and that is death. At the end of true love is death, and only the love that ends in death is love.

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#29. The termites of reduction have always gnawed away at life: even the greatest love ends up as a skeleton of feeble memories.

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#30. Given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog ... It is a completely selfless love.

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#31. If excitement is a mechanism our Creator uses for His own amusement, love is something that belongs to us alone and enables us to flee the Creator. Love is our freedom. Love lies beyond Es Muss sein!

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#32. Once her love had been publicized, it would gain weight, become a burden.

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#33. So she stood naked in front of the young man and at this moment stopped playing the game.

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#34. The religion of orgasm: utilitarianism projected into sex life; efficiency versus indolence; coition reduced to an obstacle to be got past as quickly as possible in order to reach an ecstatic explosion, the only true goal of love-making and of the universe.

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#35. He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his life?) only two or three were really essential and unforgettable. The rest were mere echoes, imitations, repetitions, or reminiscences.

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#36. The love between dog and man is idyllic, dogs were never expelled from paradise.

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#37. Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said.
Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.

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#38. Does he love me?Does he love anyone more than me?Does he love me more than I love him?Perhap sall the questions we ask of love,to measure,test,probe,and save it,have the additional effect of cutting it short.

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#39. The emotion of love gives all of us a misleading illusion of knowing the other.

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#40. He looked down at her and realized how lovely she was and how difficult it would be to tear himself away. But the world beyond the window was even more beautiful. And if he was leaving a beloved woman for its sake, then that world would be even more enhanced by the price of a betrayed love.

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#41. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

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#42. Necessity knows no magic formulae-they are all left to chance. If a love is to be unforgettable, fortuities must immediately start fluttering down to it like birds to Francis of Assisi's shoulders.

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#43. Where are all those virtues of unreason that have shaped our idea of love?

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#44. But was it love? The feeling of wanting to die beside her was clearly exaggerated: he had seen her only once before in his life! Was it simply the hysteria of a man, who, aware deep down of his inaptitude for love, felt the self-deluding need to simulate it?

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#45. Elisabeth, can't you imagine that you could love someone so terribly that just because of it you couldn't go to bed with him?

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#46. He nourished the cult of Sabina more as religion than as love.

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#47. Love is poetry, poetry is love

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#48. No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise. The love between dog and man is idyllic. It knows no conflicts, no hair-raising scenes; it knows no development.

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#49. He realized that the path of love, which Bertlef had suggested, was closed to him; it was the path of saints, not of ordinary men.

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#50. Oh 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.

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#51. Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end."
Love is a battle?" said Franz. "Well, I don't feel at all like fighting." And he left.

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#52. You can't measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange.

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#53. And there lies the horror: the past we remember is devoid of time. Impossible to reexperience a love the way we reread a book or resee a film.

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#54. For what is love if one loves a woman without knowing her? Just a decision to love? Or even an imitation? The question concerns us all: If, from our childhood on, the examples of love were not there inviting us to copy them, would we know what "loving" means?

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#55. He was happier with Sabina the invisible goddess than the Sabina who had accompanied him throughout the world and whose love he constantly feared losing.

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#56. Love is a constant interrogation.

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#57. If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him.

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#58. Yes, the essence of every love is a child, and it makes no difference at all whether it has ever actually been conceived or born. In the algebra of love a child is the symbol of the magical sum of two beings.

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#59. She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.

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#60. Looking out over the courtyard at the dirty walls, he realized he had no idea whether it was hysteria or love.

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#61. Tell me, where in life is there a value that would make us consider suicide uncalled for on principle! Love? Or friendship? I guarantee that friendship is not a bit less fickle than love and it is impossible to build anything on it. Self-love? I wish it were possible.

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#62. Sensuality is the total mobilization of the senses: an individual observes his partner intently, straining to catch every sound.

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#63. Love is a continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.

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#64. 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.

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#65. He took a look at the blond girl's eyes and knew that he must not take part in the rigged game in which the ephemeral passes for the eternal and the small for the big, that he must not take part in the rigged game called love.

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#66. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to demand-free and asking but his company.

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#67. And I felt happy inside these songs ( ... ) where sorrow is not lightness, laughter is not grimace, love is not laughable, and hatred is not timid, where people love with body and solu ( ... ), where they dance in joy ...

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