Any new possibility that existence acquires, even the least likely, transforms everything about existence.
Milan KunderaRemembering now all those farewells (fake farewells, worked-up farewells), Irena thinks: a person who messes up her goodbyes shouldn’t expect much from her re-unions.
Milan KunderaFor a novelist, a given historic situation is an anthropologic laboratory in which he explores his basic question: What is human existence?
Milan KunderaWar and culture, those are the two poles of Europe, her heaven and hell, her glory and shame, and they cannot be separated from one another. When one comes to an end, the other will end also and one cannot end without the other. The fact that no war has broken out in Europe for fifty years is connected in some mysterious way with the fact that for fifty years no new Picasso has appeared either.
Milan Kundera