Making love with a woman and sleeping with a woman are two s... - Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

"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."

"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."

"The longing for Paradise is man's longing not to be man."

"But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?"

"Physical love is unthinkable without violence."