Milan Kundera · Skopia

Quotes

13

When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 3.7

For there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 3.5

A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 2.0

Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being · 1984

★ 2.0

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Books

2

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

1984★ 7.7

The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

1979★ 6.8