More quotes by Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"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."
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"When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object."
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"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."
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"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"
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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."
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