milan kundera

“ No love can survive muteness. ”

“ And we, all of us, live under the gaze of the cameras. That is part of the human condition from now on. ”

“ Beauty is a rebellion against time. ”

“ A man of about sixty was playing the piano, a woman of the same age the violin. The hits they played were forty years old. ”

“ Epicurus, the first great theoretician of pleasure, had a highly skeptical understanding of the happy life: pleasure is the absence of suffering. ”

“ ...what first appears to be a merrily obscene game shifts imperceptibly and ineluctably into a life-and-death struggle. ”

“ The eye... the point where a person's identity is concentrated. ”

“ True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power. ”

“ But you don't want people to think that you, a doctor, wanted to deprive human beings of their right to see! ”

“ We are all dancers, as you say. I would even say: either were dancers or were deserters. ”