Milan Kundera: Citations en anglais

Milan Kundera était écrivain franco-tchèque. Citations en anglais.
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“Physical love is unthinkable without violence.”

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Milan Kundera livre L'Insoutenable Légèreté de l'être

pg 111
Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Three: Words Misunderstood

“Chance and chance alone has a message for us… Only chance can speak to us.”

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Milan Kundera livre L'Insoutenable Légèreté de l'être

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body, pg 48

“Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.”

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Milan Kundera livre Risibles amours

Source: Laughable Loves

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting”

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Milan Kundera livre Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli

Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“I was not a hypocrite, with one real face and several false ones. I had several faces because I was young and didn't know who I was or wanted to be.”

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Milan Kundera The Joke

Source: The Joke

“"Why don't you ever use your strength on me?" she said.
"Because love means renouncing strength," said Franz softly.”

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Milan Kundera livre L'Insoutenable Légèreté de l'être

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Three: Words Misunderstood

“To laugh is to live profoundly.”

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Milan Kundera livre Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli

Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“Living is being happy: seeing, hearing, touching, drinking, eating, urinating, defecating, diving into the water and gazing at the sky, laughing and crying.”

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Milan Kundera livre Le Livre du rire et de l'oubli

Source: The Book of Laughter and Forgetting

“Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.”

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“A man is responsible for his ignorance.”

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Milan Kundera livre Risibles amours

Source: Laughable Loves

“Fortunately women have the miraculous ability to change the meaning of their actions after the event.”

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Milan Kundera livre Risibles amours

Source: Laughable Loves

“On the surface, an intelligible lie; underneath, the unintelligible truth.”

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Milan Kundera livre L'Insoutenable Légèreté de l'être

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“Love is a battle," said Marie-Claude, still smiling. "And I plan to go on fighting. To the end."
Love is a battle?" said Franz. "Well, I don't feel at all like fighting." And he left.”

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Milan Kundera livre L'Insoutenable Légèreté de l'être

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present?”

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Milan Kundera livre L'Identité

pg 40
Source: Identity (1998)

“Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.”

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Milan Kundera livre L'Insoutenable Légèreté de l'être

Source: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

“… no one can do a thing about feelings, they exist and there's no way to censor them. We can reproach ourselves for some action, for a remark, but not for a feeling, quite simply because we have no control at all over it.”

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Milan Kundera livre L'Identité

Source: Identity

“The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.”

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Milan Kundera livre Risibles amours

Source: Laughable Loves