Milan Kundera - Tumblr Posts

"Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that's very beautiful. But what would they nourish their intimate talk with? However contemptible the world may be, they still need it to be able to talk together.'

'They could be silent.' 'Like those two, at the next table?'

Jean Marc laughed. 'Oh, no, no love can survive muteness.

-Milan Kundera, Identity-

(Artwork Alone Together by Malcolm Liepke).

"No one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it."

_Identity by Milan Kundera_

(Seated Figure beneath Rocks by Euan MacLeod.)

“She fell asleep at this side, clutching his hand. She held his hand all night.”

— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (trans. Michael Henry Heim)

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself. Milan Kundera Imagination is key…..I can’t imagine life without it;-). Joyeux Vendredi, mes amis!!

Milan Kundera: Unbearable lightness of being

"Nous avons compris depuis longtemps qu'il n'était plus possible de renverser ce monde, ni de le remodeler, ni d'arrêter sa malheureuse course en avant. Il n'y avait qu'une seule résistance possible: ne pas le prendre au sérieux".

Milan Kundera, La Fête de l'insignifiance 

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring–it was peace.

Milan Kundera (born on this day in 1929)

“The Greek word for return is nostos. Algos means suffering. So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.”

— Milan Kundera