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Biography - Milan Kundera:

Czech-born French writer.
Born: 1929
Period:
21st century
20th century
Place of birth: Czech Republic
Czech Republic

Metaphors are dangerous. Love begins with a metaphor. Which is to say, love begins at the point when a woman enters her first word into our poetic memory.



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Quotes for: love


Quotes

Quotes about love:


Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.





Love, love, all the rest is nothing.





We have need of morality only for want of love.





To live means to love, but above all, to love life.





Intelligence has value only in the service of love.





There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.











Quotes for: word


Quotes

Quotes for: word


The word flies and cannot be recalled.





One word and all is saved
One word and all is lost.






Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.





Finding the right words at the right moment is action.





The language of friendship is not words but meanings.





The meaning of a word is its use in the language.











Quotes

Milan Kundera also said...


The source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.





Great novels are always a little more intelligent than their authors.





We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to comes.





What we have not chosen we cannot consider either our merit or our failure.





To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.





The sound of laughter is like the vaulted dome of a temple of happiness.












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