Milan Kundera

"Love is the longing for the half of ourselves we have lost."

- Milan Kundera

"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don’t know evil or jealousy or discontent."

- Milan Kundera

"There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless."

- Milan Kundera

"for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes."

- Milan Kundera

"There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos"

- Milan Kundera

"In eroticism as dance: one of the partners is always charged with leading the other."

- Milan Kundera

"There is no perfection, only life."

- Milan Kundera

"Only animals were not expelled from Paradise."

- Milan Kundera

"People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past."

- Milan Kundera

"Dogs are our link to paradise."

- Milan Kundera