Milan Kundera, a novelist, was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, and has lived in France since 1975. The following are the classic quotations I collected for you about Milan Kundera. Welcome to reading.
Milan Kundera's classic quotations 1 1. What does he look for in women? What attracted him? Isn't physical love an infinite repetition of the process of unification?
2, it is necessarily important, but it is valuable.
He is in another life, in another story, he can't save the life that doesn't exist in his current life. But the world outside the window is more beautiful. And if he abandons the woman he loves for this reason, the world will be precious, because he has paid the price of betraying love.
Just because he is a stranger, he is superior to all others.
The beauty of the city scene that intoxicates them is not an illusion, but only after being trampled, insulted and ridiculed can it be faintly seen through its own decline.
We don't have to pay too much attention to it. It's like/kloc-a war between African tribes in the fourth century. Although 300 thousand black people died tragically during this period, it can't change the face of the world at all.
7. Therefore, we can't accuse novels of being confused by these mysterious accidental coincidences, but we have reason to accuse human beings of turning a blind eye to these accidental coincidences and depriving them of the charm of life.
He stood at the window, looking at the other side of the yard, staring at the wall of the opposite house, thinking.
9. They fully understand the logical meaning of each other's words, but they can't hear the words, and ask a deep riddle of flowing semantic river.
10, I like you because you are not kitsch. In the kitsch kingdom, you are the devil.
1 1, lured by the sound of utopia, they tried their best to squeeze into the door of heaven, but when the door slammed behind them, they found themselves in hell.
12, the only thing we can do is to resist the human situation that is not our choice.
13, childish desires have got rid of all the cages of adult spirit and continue to exist, sometimes even in distant old age. This naive desire to seize the opportunity is reflected in the role suggested by others.
14, people are people walking in the fog. But when he looked back to judge the people in the past, he couldn't see any fog on the road. His present was once the future of those people, and their path was completely clear to him, and its full scope was clearly visible. Looking back, people saw the road, people walked forward and saw their mistakes, but the fog was gone.
15, remember your past and leave it in your body, which may be a necessary condition to maintain what people call self-consistency. In order to keep the ego from shrinking and keep its size, it is necessary to water the memory from time to time, just like watering the flowers in the basin, and this kind of watering needs to keep in constant and regular contact with some past witnesses, that is, friends.
16, one day, everything will reappear in the way we have experienced, and this repetition will continue indefinitely!
17, if people are still young and the life movement has just begun, they can create melodies together and exchange motives (just like Thomas and Sabin exchanged motives for producing bowler hats), but when they meet at a mature age, the life movement is almost finished, so in everyone's music, every word and everything has different meanings.
18, Road: This is a long and narrow land on which people walk. Roads are different from highways not only because you can drive on them, but also because they are just ordinary routes connecting one point with another. The road itself is meaningless, only the two points connected by the road are meaningful. This road is a tribute to space. Each section of the road has its own meaning, urging us to have a rest.
19. How tired it would be if loyalty didn't come from true passion.
Our only freedom is to choose between pain and happiness.
2 1, you have never been good at life. You always think that your duty, as people say, is to live in it. At the center of reality. But what is the reality for you? Politics. And politics is the most basic and precious thing in life. Politics is a dirty bubble floating on the river, but in fact, the river of life is surging in the deep torrent.
22. All fanatical beliefs are exaggerated. If fanatical mysticism wants to carry fanaticism, humility and pleasure to the end, it should be fearless of laughter. Just as Mother Teresa smiled on her deathbed, Saint Anne leclerc declared: Death is a part of joy, and only men are afraid of death, because he is pitifully infatuated with his own smallness and strength.
23. I firmly believe that the standard of aesthetics comes not from God, but from the devil. In heaven, no one can distinguish beauty from ugliness.
24. That was a reproach to a girl: "You told me that there is only lust in love. Dear, if a man tells you that all he wants is your body, you will run away. Then you will understand what cruel loneliness is. " Loneliness. This word appears repeatedly. He tried to frighten them with the terrible prospect of loneliness. In order to make them love him, he preached to them like a priest: once out of love, love will spread to an endless desert, where people will die of grief.
25. It suddenly dawned on me that I had imagined myself riding on the horseback of life adventure, thinking that we were guiding the galloping of a fine horse. In fact, that is just my unilateral illusion; Those adventures may not be our own adventures at all; And to some extent, they are imposed on us by the outside world; They can't show our characteristics at all; We are not responsible for their strange flight; They are dragging us, and they don't know where they came from, and they are guided by some strange forces.
26. The basic point on which this world depends is that there is no return. Because in this world, everything is forgiven in advance and everything is ridiculous and allowed.
27. Freedom begins not where parents are abandoned or buried, but where they don't exist: here, people come into this world without knowing who brought them. Here, man came into this world from an egg thrown into the forest. Here, people are gouged out to the ground by heaven and step into this world without gratitude.
28. When kitsch is regarded as a lie, kitsch must be out of non-kitsch. Once kitsch loses its arbitrary right, it is as exciting as any weakness of human beings.
29, noise can have a benefit, drowning the text.
During the day, she tried to believe what Thomas said and tried to make herself always look as happy as before. However, the jealousy suppressed during the day is more fierce in the sleep at night. Every time a dream ends, it must be a cry, and she must be awakened to stop.
3 1, it's not him who is bad for her, it's his memory. There is nothing he can do. It is memory that keeps her out of love.
32. At this moment, she heard Thomas calling her. This phone call is too important because it comes from a stranger. He doesn't know her mother and these drunks. Every day, her ears are full of rude words and dirty words that these drunkards keep saying. Just because he is a stranger, he is above all others.
Nothing consumes all one's energy like jealousy.
34. Betrayal is to get rid of one's position. Betrayal is to get rid of the original flavor and invest in the unknown.
The most terrible thing about death is not that you have lost the future, but that you have no past. In fact, forgetting is a form of death, which runs through life.
36. You are an outstanding ally of your own grave digger.
37. The accelerated progress of history has profoundly changed the existence of individuals. In the past few centuries, the existence of individuals from birth to death was carried out in the same historical period, but now it spans two periods, sometimes even more. Although the speed of history in the past was much slower than that of human life, the speed of history is much faster now. History has fled from mankind, resulting in the tearing of the continuity and consistency of life.
Karenin, as long as his smile is still there, the theme of life can last.
39. Beauty is an abandoned world. Only when the persecutor mistakenly forgets in a corner can we meet unexpectedly.
40. How much is her love worth? Weeks of sadness. Very good! So, what kind of sadness? A little setback. What is the sadness of a week? After all, no one can always be sad. It's hard for her for a few minutes in the morning and a few minutes in the evening. How many minutes will it take altogether? How many minutes of sadness is her love worth? How many minutes of grief does he deserve?
4 1. From then on, she understood that there was nothing special in the concentration camp, nothing surprising, just something doomed and fundamental. When she came to this world, she came to the middle of this world. It is impossible to escape without doing her best.
42, just like in this world, from the beginning, there is only betrayal!
43. What life can't bear is not being, but being unable to be yourself.
44. In the process of a novelist's creation, the change to anti-lyricism is a fundamental experience; After being far away from himself, he suddenly came to see himself with a distance, and was surprised to find that he was not the person he thought. With this experience, he will know that no one is who he thinks, and this misunderstanding is universal and fundamental. From then on, he will know how to project the soft light of comedy on people.
45. Feelings are obviously unconscious between us, and often appear suddenly when there is no choice. When we "hope" to feel it, feeling is no longer a feeling, but an imitation and display of feeling, which is often called hysteria.
46. When human beings think, God laughs. Real life is always somewhere else.
47. The really serious problem is the problem of children spitting. Only the most childish problems are really serious problems. There are no answers to these questions. An unanswered question is an obstacle that makes you have no way out. In other words, it is these unanswered questions that mark the limitations of human possibilities and delimit the boundaries of our existence.
48. I hate hearing my heartbeat: it reminds me mercilessly that every minute in my life is important.
49. Because everything is forgiven in advance, everything is ruthlessly allowed.
50. The hatred for Hitler finally faded, which exposed the profound moral degeneration of a world. The basic point on which the world depends is that there is no return. Because in this world, everything is forgiven in advance and everything is ridiculous and allowed.
Milan Kundera Classic Quotations 2 1. Giving your body to the eyes of others to judge is the root of anxiety and doubt.
2. The difference between self-learners and students lies not in the breadth of knowledge, but in the difference of vitality and self-confidence.
3. Loneliness: Go through life alone without anyone's care; Speak without listening; Endure pain without pity.
4. Look at when a person abandons everything he always thinks is a mission. What's left in life?
If eternal samsara is the heaviest burden, then our life can show all its brilliance and lightness under this background.
6. Once people are fascinated by their own weakness, they will be weak, and they will fall on the street and fall to the ground, falling lower than the ground under the gaze of everyone.
7. Only later, when the veil was lifted, could he look over and find out what he had experienced and what it meant.
8. The beauty of the city scene that intoxicated them is actually not an illusion, but only after being trampled, insulted and ridiculed can it be faintly seen through its own decline.
9. When the mind is talking, it is inappropriate for the mind to point out and loudly object. In the kitsch kingdom, ideological autocracy is practiced.
10 She was glad she didn't have an affair. An affair is a way to embrace the world. She no longer wants to embrace the world. She stopped thinking about the world.
1 1. People always want to rewrite their social biographies, change the past, erase traces, erase their own, and erase others'. Forgetting is far from easy.
12, we are attached to this world because of our children, consider the future of this world, participate in it, and take it seriously with all the noise and turmoil.
13, the first betrayal is irreversible. It causes more betrayal, just like a chain reaction, which makes us farther and farther away from the initial betrayal again and again.
14, people live in the present blindfolded. He is only allowed to feel and guess what he actually experienced.
15, beauty is an abandoned world. Only when the persecutor mistakenly forgets in a corner can we meet unexpectedly.
16, this is the true and only meaning of friendship: to provide the other party with a mirror and let him see his previous image. If there is no friend who nags about his memory endlessly, this image may be erased forever.
17, a person can betray his parents, husband, country and love, but what else can he betray if his parents, husband, country and love are all lost?
18, life is an eternal and heavy effort, trying to keep yourself, trying not to get lost, and trying to exist firmly in the original position.
19, the eye, the window of the soul, the beautiful center of the face, and the aggregation point of an individual characteristic; But at the same time, it is a visual tool, which needs constant washing and wetting and is protected by a special salty liquid.
20. Never think that we can escape. Every step we take determines the final outcome, and our feet are towards our destination.
2 1. In all languages derived from Latin, the word sympathy consists of a prefix (Com) and a root (pasSio), the former means * * *, and the latter means suffering (* * * suffering).
22. If every second of our life is repeated countless times, we will be crucified like Jesus and crucified in eternity. This prospect is terrible. In the world of eternal robbery, unbearable responsibility weighs heavily on our every action, which is why Nietzsche said that the concept of eternal robbery is the heaviest burden.
23. The hatred for Hitler finally faded, which exposed the profound moral degeneration of a world. The basic point on which the world depends is that there is no return. Because in this world, everything is forgiven in advance and everything is ridiculous and allowed.
24. betrayal. Since our childhood, our father and teachers have warned us that betrayal is the most hateful evil imaginable. But what is betrayal? Betrayal is to disrupt the original order, and betrayal is to disrupt the order and enter the unknown.
25. A long time ago, a person was surprised to hear his chest beating rhythmically, but he never guessed what it was. He can't recognize such strange things as people. At that time, the human body was a prison, and the things in the prison could see, hear, fear, think and marvel. What remains after the disappearance of the human body is the soul.
26. People can never know what they want, because people can only live once, which can neither be compared with previous lives nor corrected in the afterlife. There is no way to test which choice is good because there is no comparison. Everything is an immediate experience, and just this once, you can't prepare.
27. Only when a person is old can he have no scruples about the people around him, the public and the future. He is only with the coming death day and night, and death has neither eyes nor ears, so he doesn't have to please death; He can say what he likes and do what he likes.
28. Plato's famous hypothesis in the dialogue: Primitive people are bisexual. Since God divided people into two, all these people have been looking for the other half all over the world. Love is the half of ourselves that we long to lose.
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