Unbearable Lightness Quotes - Page 2

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

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Beautiful, Two

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• There is no means of testing which decision is better, because there is no basis for comparison. We live everything as it comes, without warning, like an actor going on cold. And what can life be worth if the first rehearsal for life is life itself? That is why life is always like a sketch. No, "sketch" is not quite a word, because a sketch is an outline of something, the groundwork for a picture, whereas the sketch that is our life is a sketch for nothing, an outline with no picture.

  Milan Kundera

  Life, Mean, Decision

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• The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for something she knows nothing about. The boy who hankers after fame has no idea what fame is. The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.

  Milan Kundera

  Girl, Moving, Boys

  "La insoportable levedad del ser". Libro de Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• The only relationship that can make both partners happy is one in which sentimentality has no place and neither partner makes any claim on the life and freedom of the other.

  Milan Kundera

  Unbearable Lightness Of Being, Claims, Partners

  "Nesnesitelna lehkost byti (La insoportable levedad del ser)". Libro de Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.

  Milan Kundera

  Giving, Unbearable, Birth

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• ¿Pero era amor? El sentimiento de querer morir a su lado era claramente exagerado: ¡sólo la había visto una vez en su vida! ¿Era simplemente la histeria de un hombre que, consciente en el fondo de su inaptitud para el amor, sentía la necesidad autoengañosa de simularlo?

  Milan Kundera

  Hombres, Yo, Histeria

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• 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

  Love Is, Men, Voice

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• En el reino del kitsch totalitario, todas las respuestas están dadas de antemano y excluyen cualquier pregunta.

  Milan Kundera

  Answers, Kitsch, Unbearable Lightness Of Being

  "La insoportable levedad del ser". Libro de Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden but the unbearable lightness of being.

  Milan Kundera

  Drama, Unbearable, Burden

  The Unbearable Lightness of Being pt. 3, ch. 10 (1984) (translation by Michael Henry Heim)

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• Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short.

  Milan Kundera

  Cutting, Tests, Unbearable

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• Happiness is the longing for repetition.

  Milan Kundera

  Felicidad, risa, alegría

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• Sentarse con un perro en la ladera de una colina en una tarde gloriosa es volver al Edén, donde no hacer nada no era aburrido, era paz.

  Milan Kundera

  Dejar ir, Perro, Estrés

  "Biografía/Citas personales". www.imdb.com.

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• Vivimos todo como viene, sin avisar, como un actor que entra en frío.

  Milan Kundera

  Actores, Advertencia, Ensayo

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• Soñar no es sólo un acto de comunicación; es también una actividad estética, un juego de la imaginación, un juego que es un valor en sí mismo.

  Milan Kundera

  Dream, Communication, Games

  "La insoportable levedad del ser". Libro de Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• No hay nada más pesado que la compasión. Ni siquiera el propio dolor pesa tanto como el que se siente por alguien, dolor intensificado por la imaginación y prolongado por cien ecos.

  Milan Kundera

  Pain, Compassion, Imagination

  "La insoportable levedad del ser". Libro de Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• Las metáforas son peligrosas. El amor comienza con una metáfora. Es decir, el amor comienza en el momento en que una mujer introduce su primera palabra en nuestra memoria poética.

  Milan Kundera

  Amor, Sueño, Recuerdos

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• The heaviest of burdens is simultaneously an image of life's most intense fullfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of a burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into new heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?

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  Real, Men, Air

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• He suddenly recalled from Plato's Symposium: People were hermaphrodites until God split then in two, and now all the halves wander the world over seeking one another. Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

  Milan Kundera

  Plato, Philosophy, Love Is

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• Cuando el corazón habla, a la mente le resulta indecente oponerse.

  Milan Kundera

  Inspiración, Corazón, Mente

  "La insoportable levedad del ser". Libro de Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

  Milan Kundera

  Book, Unbearable, Arms

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• ¿Y qué puede valer la vida si el primer ensayo de la vida es la vida misma?

  Milan Kundera

  Rehearsal, Firsts, Unbearable

  "La insoportable levedad del ser". Libro de Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• 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).

  Milan Kundera

  Love, Sleep, Passion

  "La insoportable levedad del ser". Libro de Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• And therein lies the whole of man's plight. Human time does not turn in a circle; it runs ahead in a straight line. That is why man cannot be happy: happiness is the longing for repetition.

  Milan Kundera

  Happiness, Running, Time

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• Physical love is unthinkable without violence.

  Milan Kundera

  Relationship, Love Is, Violence

  "La insoportable levedad del ser". Libro de Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

  Milan Kundera

  Strong, Hurt, Unbearable

  "La insoportable levedad del ser". Libro de Milan Kundera, 1984.

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