We go through the present blindfolded... Only later, when the blindfold is removed and we examine the past, do we realize what we've been through and understand what it means.
Milan KunderaThe novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.
Milan KunderaIn the love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body.
Milan KunderaHe Kept recalling her lying on his bed; she reminded him of no one in his former life.
Milan KunderaHer kitsch was the image of home, all peace, quiet, and harmony, and ruled by a loving mother and a wise father. It was an image that took shape in her after the death of her parents. The less her life resembled the sweetest of dreams, the more sensitive she was to its magic, and more than once she shed tears when the ungrateful daughter in a sentimental film embraced the neglected father as the windows of the happy family's house shone out into the dying day.
Milan Kundera